Mango, Abuela, and Me, Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Mango, Abuela, & Me, by Meg Medina.

With 28 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, find cause & effect relationships, 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.

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• 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.

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

• Cause & Effect (simplified): Students are given either the cause or effect and will cut & match up cause & effect cards, then paste them in the correct boxes (ANSWER KEY included).

• Cause & Effect: Students cut & match up cause & effect cards, then paste them in the correct boxes (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Story Plot: Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer (ANSWER KEY included).

• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

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

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

• Character Feelings (Mia): Students will describe how Mia's feelings change throughout the story and give examples of the events that cause her to feel the way she does.

• Character Feelings (Abuela): Students will describe how Abuela's feelings change throughout the story and give examples of the events that cause her to feel the way she does.

• Character Change (Mia): Students will explain how Mia changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events in the story that caused this change to happen.

• Character Change (Abuela): Students will explain how Abuela changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events in the story that caused this change to happen.

• Character Summary: Students summarize the main character of 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 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.

• Problem & Solution: Students answer questions related to the problem & solution in 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 what two things are being compared, and explain what each figurative language example means (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Before & After: Students will draw a picture of Mia and Abuela together before they were able to talk to each other and then draw a picture of what it looked like after.

• Learning Something New: Students answer questions to make text-to-self connections.

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

• Word Search Puzzle: Students match the English words to the Spanish words and find them in the word search puzzle. (ANSWER KEY included).

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💡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.