Before reading
Before reading chapter two, we scanned the chapter and reviewed the idea that Spanish uses dashes (-) to indicate a new speaker instead of quotation marks.
We also looked at the words Ji,ji,ji on p. 6 and talked about what this meant and why it was spelled that way. The kids got a real kick out of relating it to texting.
During reading
I read this chapter aloud, changing my voice for each character, while students followed along in their books. Then I selected 3 strong readers to come and act out the dialogue in front of the class. They had a blast with this and wanted to do it several times! However, for management sake, I split them into groups of 3 and let them each do it at the same time within their groups. We didn’t have time for everyone to present. Then they completed the chapter two comprehension questions independently.
