Little Panda Reading Street Unit 3 Week 1 ELL strategies

Little Panda, La Pequeña Panda

With my Kindergarten EL students I read Kindergarten Panda by: Joanne Ryder and Katherine Feng.

We did a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast what the Pandas did in kindergarten and what we do in kindergarten as a whole class

Then the students wrote sentences: I can see the panda...

Bilingual: 

We read La Pequeña Panda (The Little panda in Spanish). 

We talked about cognates:

Panda: Panda

Explore: explorar

Curious: curioso

Bamboo: bambú

We talked about how the letter "n" and "b" make the same sounds in Spanish and English and we talked about words that begin with "b" and "n" in English and Spanish.