What Can You Do with a Paleta? / ¿Qué puedes hacer con una paleta?
Author:Carmen Tafolla
Illustrator: Magaly Morales
Lexile
Level: 960L
What Can You Do with a Paleta? is a colorful, imaginative book that
describes children having fun on a hot day with a paleta, or popsicle. For this
learning activity, students would use the text as a point of reference to
complete a short writing prompt (between one and two paragraphs) where they
describe their favorite food or activity during the summertime.
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced
events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to
signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Goal: Students will be able to reflect on and identify how their own
backgrounds relate to a piece of multicultural literature.
Objective (Cognitive): The students will be able to read the story and relate and
transfer their own experiences in a paragraph-long response detailing their
favorite summertime activities.
Outcome: Students will understand the significance of celebrating the diversity in their summer pastimes.
Sell tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSlJPHtZ5w
