Preterit+-+Donde+viven+los+monstruos

I used this book in order to reinforce the preterite. Here is what I did...

I made a sheet of vocabulary words that they might not know, with pictures describing it. I will bring that to class for everyone.

1. Pre-reading: I copied all of the pictures from the book, without the writing. I broke the class up into five groups and gave each group five pictures. I had the pictures in order, like the first five pictures of the book went to the first group, and so on. They had to put their set of pictures in order, and then create a mini story based on the pictures. In this mini story they had to use the preterite at least five times, in at least two different subjects. They then read their stories to the class. They were pretty funny!

2. During reading: The kids all gathered around and most of them were really into it. I had each student make cards with the subjects on them. While I was reading if they heard the preterite they had to hold up the subject card that corresponded to what they heard. The book only really uses the third person singular and plural, but it was really good for repetition.

3. Post-reading: I gave each student a picture and they had all had to work together to put the pictures in order. After they did this, since the story only used the third person, I had them retell the story but pretending that they were Max (the main character). So they had to use the Yo subject and when the monsters were involved sometimes they used the nosotros. I think I had them do this in like ten sentences.

If you have any questions feel free to ask!! user:gutier50