They should be able to make guesses and predictions related to a story and visualize what is happening in the story.
Planning and Diagnositicsįor students to successfully complete this lesson, they should be in the habit of connecting what they already know to the text. This is the second in a set of lessons designed to teach students how to make inferences. In this lesson, students draw on their prior knowledge and use the information from the text to make inferences. The lesson uses the book, Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto. (Sept.This lesson is designed to help primary students establish the skill of making inferences as a reading comprehension strategy. The children's expressions are deftly rendered-especially when they are faced with a second batch of tamales.
Martinez's sensuous oil paintings in deep earth tones conjure up a sense of family unity and the warmth of holidays. Soto, noted for such fiction as Baseball in April, confers some pleasing touches-a tear on Maria's finger resembles a diamond he allows the celebrants a Hispanic identity without making it the main focus of the text-but overall the plot is too sentimental (and owes a major debt to an I Love Lucy episode). Of course the ring turns out to be safely on Mom's finger. She and the cousins search every tamale-with their teeth. Only later, when the tamales are cooled and a circle of cousins gathered, does Maria remember the diamond.
When her mother steps away, Maria seizes her opportunity and dons the ring, then carries on with her work. All she wants is a chance to wear her mother's diamond ring, which sparkles temptingly on the kitchen counter. Maria is making tamales, kneading the masa and feeling grown-up. Snow is falling, preparations for a family feast are underway and the air is thick with excitement.
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