Celia Cruz, The Queen of Salsa Read Aloud Book Companion Activities
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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Celia Cruz, The Queen of Salsa by Veronica Chambers.
With 31 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, practice plotting story events, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!
Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.
⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️
◾ Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.
◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to events in the story.
◾ Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and explain why it's important to the plot.
◾ Setting Influences the Plot: Students answer questions about the setting of the story to gain a better understanding of how a story's setting helps to build the narrative’s mood, plot, and character development.
◾ Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
◾ Figuring Out Figurative Language: Students read the text taken from the story. Identify the type of figurative language used and what is being compared. Write the meaning and answer the extension question for each example.
◾ Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.
◾ Character Traits: Students choose 4 important character traits that describe the main character and provide evidence from the text to support their choices.
◾ Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Feelings: Students describe the character's feelings throughout the story & give examples.
◾ Character Development: Students select character traits to describe how the character changed and developed throughout the story and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
◾ Overcoming Obstacles: Students describe 2 challenges the character faced and how they responded to those challenges. Then, choose a character trait that developed as a result of their experiences.
◾ Character Change: Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.
◾ Character Acrostic Poem: Students will write an acrostic poem to describe Celia Cruz.
◾ Character Summary: Students choose a character from the story and fill out the graphic organizer.
◾ Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then, answer the questions about the author's message.
◾ 3-2-1: Students will list three things they learned about the character, 2 challenges they faced, and one word that best describes the character.
◾ Timeline of Celia Cruz's Life: Students fill in the timeline with the information they learned from the text or through research, and illustrate each event.
◾ The Perfect Playlist: Students create a playlist of FOUR songs that represent four BIG IDEAS consistently seen throughout this book.
◾ Book Review: Students will color in the stars to rate how much they enjoyed the book and draw a new cover & their favorite character from the story. Then, they will explain why other kids should or should not read it.
◾ Biography Brochure: Students conduct research to learn more about Celia Cruz's life and create a brochure.
◾ Biography One-Pager: Students will research further into the life of Celia Cruz and complete the biography handout.
◾ Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle: Students will use the clues to fill in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY included).
◾ Investigating Images: Students will respond to the question prompts to help them investigate the photograph.
◾ Prep for a Podcast: Students create 3 questions they would want to ask Celia Cruz. Then, they will partner up with a classmate, who pretends to be Celia Cruz to ask them the interview questions.
◾ 4-Writing Prompts: Students respond to writing prompts with personal opinions, experiences, or evidence from the text to support their thinking.
💡Need ideas for different ways you can implement these activities?
◾ Focus on different reading skills each day for targeted instruction, and have students complete a corresponding printable to check for understanding.
◾ During centers, students can independently read the story again and complete an activity that reviews a previously taught concept.
◾ Work with students on a reading concept they struggle with during guided reading or strategy groups.
◾ Students work with a partner or in literature circles to complete additional reading activities.
This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.
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