Little Stories for Little Readers Beginning Reproducible Books in English and Spanish dog perro by: Susan M. Ketch Craig Johnson Joy Gornto Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc. Greensboro, NC
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Table of Contents Introduction and Ideas for Using These Books...4 Let s Eat Ice Cream!...8 Qué rico helado!...13 Be Nice to Animals... 17 Cuida los animales... 22 Don t Make a Mess, Tess!... 26 Consuelo, no tires las cosas al suelo!...31 My New Puppy...35 Mi perrito...40 Scribbles...44 Garabato...49 Weather...53 El tiempo... 58 Bugs on Parade... 62 Desfile de insectos...67 Quack, Duck, Quack!... 71 Di cuac, patito!...78 I Live on a Farm...84 Vivo en la granja... 91 Coach Webb s House...97 En casa de la maestra Pérez...101 School Stuff... 104 Cosas de la escuela...110 Spiders...115 Las arañas...120 Blank Storybook Pages...124 Reading Certificates...125 Spanish-to-English Glossary... 126 Carson-Dellosa Little Stories for Little Readers CD-104046
Let s Eat Ice Cream! Susan M. Ketch Level 3 Number of English Words: 33 Number of Spanish Words: 37 Pre-Reading Activities Book Introduction: Tell students that the family in this book likes to eat ice cream. Discussion Suggestions: Ask, Do you like to eat ice cream? What is your favorite flavor? What are the favorite flavors of other people in your family? Picture Walk: Point out the ice cream parlor (heladería) and ask if students have a special place to get ice cream in their neighborhoods. Let students decide, based on the pictures, what kinds of ice cream they think the family members in the story choose. Ask students to describe what the different kinds of ice cream they name look like. Word Work: Punctuation Point out and name quotation marks, exclamation points, and commas. Structure Point out that Oh yes! said. and Sí, qué rico! are recurring patterns. Post-Reading Questions 1. Who got ice cream in the story? 2. Did each person get the same kind of ice cream? 3. How do you know the family likes ice cream? Extension Activities 1. Provide letter manipulatives for w, e, h, m, and b. Make the word we. Then, change the first letter to an m. Ask, What is the new word you have made? Can you change the first letter again and make a new word? 2. Tell students, Think about the kinds of foods you like to eat. List or draw your favorite foods on a piece of paper to make a menu. 3. Ask each child to tell you her favorite ice cream flavor. Make a graph. Which is the most popular flavor? Related Literature Benny Bakes a Cake by Eve Rice (Greenwillow, 1993) Let s Find Out about Ice Cream by Mary Ebeltoft Reid (Scholastic, 1997) Wemberly s Ice Cream Star by Kevin Henkes (HarperFestival, 2003) Translation Notes Qué rico! means How delicious! Rico can also mean rich or wealthy. Note the difference between the words used for Mom, Dad, Grandmother, and Grandfather, and the words Mamá, Papá, Abuelito, and Abuelita. Carson-Dellosa Little Stories for Little Readers CD-104046
Let s Eat Ice Cream! Written by Susan M. Ketch Illustrated by Julie Kinlaw Dad said, Let s eat ice cream! Let s Eat Ice Cream! CD-104046 Carson-Dellosa 1
Let s Eat Ice Cream! CD-104046 Carson-Dellosa Oh, yes! said Mom. 2 Oh, yes! said Rose. Let s Eat Ice Cream! CD-104046 Carson-Dellosa 3