EL GRUPO LEO EN FLORIDA
Lecturas en inglés
Lecturas en inglés
Hello my Grrreat Readers!
Last week I read some fiction books with my
students and among all those stories, we really enjoyed reading the Frog and
Toad ones.
I wish you to enjoy and learn with the story
that I suggest, Frog and Toad are friends, as much as I did with my American
students!
MEET THE
AUTHOR:
During
his lifetime, Arnold Lobel wrote and illustrated numerous books. He attended
art school, and first began drawing pictures for children’s books based on
ideas from the cartoons his own children watched. Several of his works have won
literary awards; such as the Caldecott and Newberry Honors.
Lobel
grew up in New York, where he lived with his grandparents. As a child, he loved
checking books out from the library. He often used to tell stories, and then
illustrate them, to entertain his classmates when he was a young boy. Lobel
married and raised two children in New York.
SUMMARY:
This book is a
compilation of five short stories. The theme of friendship is continually
developed through each of the stories. The readers can see that even though
Frog and Toad are different, they can still be very good friends. They care for
one another and demonstrate their feelings through acts of kindness and
unselfishness.
It's
April and…
Frog is
looking forward to a whole year of happy times with his best friend, Toad. If
only Toad would agree to wake up from his long winter nap!
In the first of five short stories, clever
Frog finds a way to rouse his sleepy friend. When Frog doesn't feel well, Toad
tries to tell him a story. When Toad loses a button, Frog helps him look for
it. When Toad goes swimming in his funny bathing suit, Frog tries not to laugh,
and when Toad is sad because he never gets any mail, Frog knows just what to
do.
READ ALOUD
ACTIVITIES
Answer the following
questions:
Chapter 1: Spring
Chapter 1: Spring
1. Why did Frog wake up Toad?
2. Why did Toad
want to go back to sleep?
3. How did Frog finally get Toad to get out of bed?
Chapter 2: The Story
1. Toad could not
think of a story. How did Frog think of a story?
Chapter 3: A Lost
Button
1. What did Frog and Toad do when they found out Toad
had lost his button?
2. How did Toad
know the buttons were not his?
3. Where did Toad finally find his button?
4. What did Toad do with all of the buttons?
Chapter 4: A Swim
1. Why didn’t Toad want Frog to look at him in his
suit?
2. Why did the other animals come out by the pond?
3. What did Toad decide to do when the animals would
not leave? Did it work?
4. What happened when Toad got out of the water?
Chapter 5: The
Letter
1. Why was Toad sad?
2. What did Frog do when he went home?
3. Why did snail take so long to get the letter to
Toad?
4. Write a letter to Toad.
