This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Abuela's Weave, by Omar S. Casteneda.

With 38 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 identify story elements, determine the theme, analyze characters, compare and contrast, make predictions, inferences, and connections, answer questions that require them to think within and beyond the text, and so 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.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️
◾ Making Predictions: Students make predictions about the text before reading the book.
◾ Judging by the Cover: Students examine the front cover of the book and answer questions.
◾ 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.
◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order: Students describe and illustrate four major events in the story in chronological order.
◾ 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.
◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to events from the story.
◾ Visualizing: Students read the text from the story and draw a picture of what they visualized.
◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
◾ Character Traits (Esperanza): Students choose 2 character traits that describe the character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
◾ Character Traits (Esperanza & Abuela): Students choose 2 character traits that describe each character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
◾ Character Inside & Out (Esperanza): 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 (Esperanza): Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.
◾ Character Feelings (Abuela): Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.
◾ Character Development (Esperanza): Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.
◾ Character Development (Abuela): Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.
◾ Character Change (Esperanza): Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.
◾ Overcoming Obstacles: Students will choose two challenges Esperanza faced in the story, describe her responses, and identify the character traits that developed as a result.
◾ Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and describe what happened there and why it was important to the plot.
◾ Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know the setting changed.
◾ Compare & Contrast: Students compare & contrast Esperanza's home in Santa Cruz to the city.
◾ Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.
◾ Thinking Beyond the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.
◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
◾ Sensory Details: Students describe Esperanza's experience at the market using the five senses.
◾ Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story, put them in chronological order, and answer the questions about the author's message.
◾ Trip to the Market: Students recap Esperanza and Abuela's' trip to the market with pictures, captions, and details from the story to highlight the most important or memorable parts.
◾ Dear Diary: Students will imagine themselves as a character from the story and write a diary entry about a key event.
◾ Tapestry Design: Students design a tapestry that represents them or their culture.
◾ Advertisement: Students create an advertisement to convince people shopping at the market to buy Abuela's tapestries.
◾ Caught on Social Media: Students imagine they are a character in the story and create a social media post sharing one event, including a caption, name, location, likes, and a hashtag.
◾ 2 - Crossword Puzzles: Students use the clues to fill in the crossword puzzles (ANSWER KEYS INCLUDED).
◾ 2 - Word Search Puzzles: Students use the clues to find the hidden words in the puzzles (ANSWER KEYS INCLUDED).
◾ Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.
◾ Book Review: Students rate and review the book.
◾ All About Guatemala: Students will research to learn more about the country of Guatemala.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.