I Love Saturdays y Domingos Read Aloud

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book I Love Saturdays y Domingos by Alma Flor Ada. It includes 26 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, making this resource 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 be captivated by the stimulating activities, while educators will value the saved effort in searching for premium resources to tackle complex reading concepts. The activities on offer aim to promote advanced cognitive skills, urge students to cite textual justifications for their conclusions, and motivate them to articulate their personal opinions and views.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️

• ◾ Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.

• ◾ Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.

• ◾ Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.

• ◾ Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer.

• ◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order (with Grandma & Grandpa): Students will describe and illustrate four memories of the narrator's time with her Grandma & Grandpa.

• ◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order (with Abuelita & Abuelito): Students will describe and illustrate four memories of the narrator's time with Abuelito & Abuelita.

• ◾ Compare & Contrast: Students will compare and contrast the activities the little girl in the story likes to do with each set of grandparents.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• ◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out (Narrator): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out (Grandma): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out (Grandpa): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out (Abuelita): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out (Abuelito): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

• ◾ Character Traits: Students choose character traits that describe both sets of grandparents and provide evidence from the text to support those traits.

• ◾ Character Feelings: Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• ◾ 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 Summary: Students summarize the main character of the story.

• ◾ Character Acrostic Poem: Students will write an acrostic poem to describe the main character.

• ◾ Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students draw a scene from the story & explain why it's important to the plot.

• ◾ Setting Influences the Plot: Students will draw a scene from the story that takes place in one of the settings and write about what happened there and why it was important to the plot.

• ◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.

• ◾ Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• ◾ Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.

• ◾ Spanish & English Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the puzzle. Words can go across or down. Letters are shared when the words intersect (ANSWER KEY included).

• ◾ Book Review: Students rate how much they enjoyed the book, draw a new cover & their favorite character from the story, and explain why other kids should or should not read it.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.

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