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Hogares
A+ Common Core Spanish Literacy Lesson Plan © Santillana USA
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Show students the cover of the book. Have them identify the author’s name and the title of the story.
Then conduct a picture walk through the book and have students explain how the photographs in
the book might be able to help them understand the content and words on each page.
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Write the word
hogar
on the board. Point out to students that the letter
h
in Spanish is silent. Write
other words in Spanish that begin with the letter
h
and have students practice pronouncing the
words, such as
honor, hormiga, horno, hacha, helado.
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Discuss the basic needs of humans—
aire, comida, refugio y agua
(air, food, shelter, and water).
Discuss what a shelter is and why it is important for survival. Elicit that it keeps people safe, protects
people from weather conditions, and provides a place for people to eat and sleep.
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Read the text aloud to students. Then have students read along
with you, tracking print. Be sure to demonstrate proper fluency and
inflection for students to mimic.
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Ask students:
¿Qué tipo de libro es este? ¿El libro presenta un cuento o presenta información?
(What
kind of book is this? Does it tell a story or give information?)
¿Tiene muchas imágenes o pocas?
(Does it have a lot of images or few?) Explain that it is an informational text because it provides
information about a topic. Elicit that informational books usually have photos instead of
illustrations.
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Divide the class into small groups. Have students take turns reading the text in the groups. Assign
specific questions for students to locate the answers to and report on as a group. For example:
¿Cómo
son las casas móviles?
(What are the mobile homes like?)
¿Cuántos tipos de hogares hay?
(How many
types of homes are there?)
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Re-read and show pages 3–5. Ask students what they believe the advantages and disadvantages are
of living in apartment buildings. Let students have a debate about the benefits and non-benefits
of living in such homes. Students can document their ideas in a two-column chart (Graphic
Organizer #16) to present to the class
.
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¿Cómo son las casas?
(What are the houses like?) Have
students explain why they think these types of homes are built. Elicit: to save room and allow more
families to live in a given area.
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Re-read pages 13–16 and ask:
¿Por qué se usan diferentes materiales para construir esos hogares?
(Why
are different materials used to build those homes?) Elicit that sometimes people use materials that
are available in the areas in which they live, or for a purpose, such as to strengthen a house in an
area that experiences many hurricanes or floods.
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Divide the class into groups and have them research where the different types of homes mentioned
in the text are located. Create a three-column chart on the board and label the columns
urbano
(urban),
suburbano
(suburban), and
rural
(rural). Be sure students understand the characteristics of
each of these areas. Have students use sticky notes or images to place in the different columns on
the chart.
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