Author/Illustrator: Rebecca Emberley
About the Author:
Rebecca Emberley is the author and illustrator of numerous books for children, including a bestselling bi-lingual series. She comes from a family of artists, including her father Ed Emberley, her brother Michael Emberley, and sister in law Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, who are all children's book illustrators. Her daughter Adrian Emberley and her husband Peter Black, are both singer-songwriters and sometimes they work on projects together. Because of this, Rebecca is constantly very busy. When she is not creating books for children, she does some graphic design, travels, and looks for opportunities to work with her family. She now lives in Maine with her husband, but will soon be traveling for a while, to look for new and exciting ideas.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Foreign Langauge
Grade Level: K-2
Theme: Building vocabulary through a different language
Synopsis:
This is a bilingual story about different things you can find in someones house. It uses English and Spanish to describe different people in their family, different toys in the rooms, different items that are connected with certain rooms and other places people can live.
Pre Reading Activity:
Activity:
Have the class draw a picture of their house and describe it to the class.
Post Reading Activity:
Activity:
After reading the story, have the students draw a picture of any room inside their house and write different items they have in the room. Have them also write down the name of the item in Spanish with your help to learn new ways to say these different items.
Reflection:
I think this is a very good book to use in a younger classroom because it allows a student to learn words in Spanish and be able to remember them. It also helps students to talk about what type of building they live in and be able to describe different things using different ways to say them.
I like the idea of this book because it seems simple enough and definitely can relate to their lives. I like your pre-reading activity because it helps them to visualize their own house before reading the story.
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