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Children will compare favorite animal characters with the real animals they are based on.

Vocabulary: curioso, personaje

Literacy Focus: Read Across America

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Read any or all of the books featured in the issue! Discuss how the characters compare with their real animal counterparts, as well as the characters’ traits.
• In addition to traits, you can discusshow the characters evolve and change from the beginning of the story to the end.

• Kids can practice visual discrimination as well as initial sounds with this fun skill sheet!

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. Encuentra el titular. Subráyalo.
2. Encuentra la foto que enseña un animal curioso. Ponle un ✔.
3. Encuentra la cubierta del libro con un personaje tranquilo y genial. Márcalo con una ✘.
4. Mira la barra lateral. ¡Señala la palabra que te describe mejor!

Skill: writing and drawing

Materials: Mi personaje animal skill sheet, pencils, crayons

• Before kids create their own animal characters, model how to fill out the skill sheet using an animal character kids already know, such as Pete el gatp.
• At the top, write gato and draw a cat. For character traits, you might circle listo and sincero, and write in tranquilo. Next, you can write lleva zapatos blancos. Finally, draw a portrait of Pete el gato in his white shoes and label it with his name.
• Now invite kids to invent their own characters. They can base them on favorite animals. Their characters can have things in common with the real-world animals, or they might be wildly different from them!
• When everyone is done, let kids introduce their characters to the class.