Book Summary
Many people all over the world speak two languages. They are bilingual. In Being Bilingual, readers meet children from different cultures and learn their names and the languages they speak. A pronunciation guide, glossary, and table of contents are included to support readers.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Compare and contrast information
• Discriminate long /e/ vowel sound
• Identify and read long /e/ vowel digraph ea
• Recognize and use proper nouns
• Understand how to read pronunciations in parentheses

Materials

• Book -- Being Bilingual (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Compare and contrast, vowel digraph ea, proper nouns worksheets

   Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• High-frequency words: are, make, many, more, than, two, use(d), what, who, you
• Content words: Aztecs, bilingual, Cherokee, French, Guarani, Hispanic, Incas, language, live, Nahuatl, Navajo, newspaper, Paraguay, Quechua, Quebec, such, tribe, weave