Adventures with Abuela
Realistic (fiction), 1,771 words, Level T (Grade 3)

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategy	Ask and answer questions
Comprehension	Author's Purpose
Grammar and Mechanics	Quotation Marks
Word Work	Homophones

Book Summary

In Adventures with Abuela, the Cruz children and their parents set out to discover where they'll be meeting their grandmother, Abuela, for vacation. Armed with a map of Arizona and their grandmother's clues, the children unravel a mystery that takes them from Utah to Arizona.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to solve the clues in the text
• Identify the author’s purpose
• Identify quotation and punctuation marks in text
• Identify homophones used in text

Vocabulary

• Content words: Abuela, adventure, clues, direction, head, headquarters, map legend, mystery, Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, puzzled, recited, scale of miles

Book Resources

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