Summary Of La Abuela

The focus of this assessment period was on fairy tales. Specifically, we tackled the fairytale of La Capericuita Roja from the perspective of Little Red Riding Hood, her grandmother in the book La Abuela, and of the wolf in a short story collection titled Tengo Hambre. La abuela is a story that helped reinforce the vocabulary and grammar structures in la Caperucita Roja and recycles previous vocabulary as well as grammar structures in the story we have worked on in class. La abuela was a fun story to act out with students. Students actors played parts ranging from animals to inanimate objects. The actors dramatize the events of the story while I read. I pause throughout the story to pose questions to the audience and to the actors directly.