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First Read -Find the gist

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Teacher-make sure to introduce any new vocabulary at the beginningAn alternative to students reading by themselves is for the teacher to read or listen to audio version1Salvador Late or Early Sandra Cisneros

Salvador with eyes the color of caterpillar, Salvador of the crooked hair and crooked teeth, Salvador whose name the teacher cannot remember, is a boy who is no ones friend, runs along somewhere in that vague direction where homes are the color of bad weather, lives behind a raw wood doorway, shakes the sleepy brothers awake, ties their shoes, combs their hair with water, feeds them milk and cornflakes from a tin cup in the dim dark of the morning. Salvador, late or early, sooner or later arrives with the string of younger brothers ready. Helps his mama, who is busy with the business of the baby. Tugs the arms of Cecilio, Arturito, makes them hurry, because today, like yesterday, Arturito has dropped the cigar box of crayons, has let go the hundred little fingers of red, green, yellow, blue, and nub of black sticks that tumble and spill over and beyond the asphalt puddles until the crossing-guard lady holds back the blur of traffic for Salvador to collect them again.

Salvador inside that wrinkled shirt, inside the throat that must clear itself and apologize each time it speaks, inside that forty-pound body of boy with its geography of scars, its history of hurt, limbs stuffed with feathers and rags, in what part of the eyes, in what part of the heart, in that cage of the chest where something throbs with both fists and knows only what Salvador knows, inside that body too small to contain the hundred balloons of happiness, the single guitar of grief, is a boy like any other disappearing out the door, beside the schoolyard gate, where he has told his brothers they must wait. Collects the hands of Cecilio and Arturito, scuttles off dodging the many schoolyard colors, the elbows and wrists crisscrossing, the several shoes running. Grows small and smaller to the eye, dissolves into the bright horizon, flutters in the air before disappearing like a memory of kites.

Words I dont knowKey Wordsunderline Important WordsI understandI dont understandLook up definitionKey words are words that are used over and over or descriptive words and phrases that stick out to you.Notes to tell why its importantSecond Read-Annotate the text

Chunk the story (draw a line to separate) If it's less than 5 paragraphs, chunk each paragraph. Otherwise, chunk every 2-4 paragraphs.After each paragraph/chunk, write the gistOn anchor chart-include discuss with partner/class3 Preamble to the US Constitution Published September 19, 1787 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. We the People of the United States.Words I dont knowKey Wordsunderline Important WordsI understandI dont understandLook up definitionKey words are words that are used over and over or descriptive words and phrases that stick out to you.Notes to tell why its importantSecond Read-Annotate the text

Chunk the story (draw a line to separate) If it's less than 5 paragraphs, chunk each paragraph. Otherwise, chunk every 2-4 paragraphs.After each paragraph/chunk, write the gistOn anchor chart-include discuss with partner/class5 Preamble to the US Constitution Published September 19, 1787 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Words I dont knowKey Wordsunderline Important WordsI understandI dont understandWe the People of the United States.

Preamble to the US Constitution Published September 19, 1787 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. We the People of the United States.

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