Let's Talk About Books - The Baker by The Sea
Let's Talk About Books - The Baker by The Sea
Let's Talk About Books - The Baker by The Sea
What do you see? What do you notice about the picture? A word for that is…
Activating prior knowledge, activating schema
Activating prior knowledge, activating schema
Activating prior knowledge, activating schema
people time
Verbs/actions
places In the past
S/He grew up
A girl Long time ago S/He wanted to be a
A boy In a village At the begining of fisherman/
A man By the sea the century baker/shopassistant
A family At the bakery Last century S/He
A woman In the beach A month ago liked/loved/hated
A village In a small town A few years ago S/He didn’t like
A fisherman At the sea front Yesterday S/He went
A baker The day after S/he had
Later on the week S/he hoped
S/he made
Students make word clouds around the main idea
nouns
scaffolding language
Make sentences and check they are correct
peer learning
The baker by
the sea
Making predictions
Questions:
Where is it? What can you see?
Who works there? What does s/he make?
What is the story about? How do I know? What makes me think that?
Vocabulary:
Bread loafs, blueberry jam, icing sugar, flour, buns, scones wooden spoons, chocolat muffins, piping hot buns
Visualizing
● Scene 2 If you keep walking over the hills... And across the fields... You will come to the edge, ...where the land meets the sea.
Questions:
How did we get there?
What kind of place is it?
Does it remind you of any known place or I place you have visited?
How do you imagine the place? Is it big? A small town?
What does people do to make a living?
Who works there? What does s/he make?
What is the story about?
Vocabulary:
Hills, bushes, trees, Up and down, forest, pine tree, cedar tree, etc...
Blue sky, Huge, fluffy clouds, cloudy, foggy,
Front line, beach, changing rooms, sand, sandy beach, waves, ocean, sea, light house
... Or find a reader
Lets read the book!
● Choral reading
• Practice with some words
• Select a paragraph and
practice
• Raise students confidence
https://ttsreader.com/
Infer. Use context clues. Guess word meaning. Word study
● Scene 3 And on this edge, where the beach begins, lies a village.
Questions:
What does people do to make a living?
Who works there? What does s/he make? Definition Facts
What is the story about?
When do you think this story takes place? Why?
Look at the characters, their dressing, the streets, the buildings... word
Find someone who is wearing a hat/ an apron/ riding a bike...
Examples
Vocabulary: Picture it Non
Smoke, chimneys, boat, fisher boats, Fisher mongers examples
Fish&chips
The village: Little alleys, narrow streets
Workers
A boy on his bike
Fluency cards for individual and pair training
We gain confidence
http://applefortheteach.blogspot.com/2014/03/roll-and-retel
l-building-summarizing.html
Retelling the story
Retelling bookmarks
Informal talk. Tell me.
● Basic Questions
Was there anything you liked about this book?
Was there anything you disliked?
Was there anything that puzzled you?
Were there any patterns – any connections – that you noticed?
● General Questions
Have you read any other books like this one?
Has anything that happened in this book ever happened to you?
● Special Questions
How long did it take for the story to happen?
Who was telling – who was narrating – the story? Do we know?
How do we know?
In order to help students to respond to the questions...
● Responses to the questions need not be in sentences
● Act as a model for the students by providing your own responses
● Allow time for students to consider their responses
● Build up the kind of language that will support the students to engage in the discussion.
○ Caracters, setting, plot, narrator
○ Structures such as:
■ I think
■ I was’nt sure why...
■ It made me think of...
■ I liked the way ...
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Response-Sentence-Starters-761421
Vocabulary clouds Bakery
Bread buns biscuits
Verbs: add
Flour sugar icing sugar
berries scones cap cakes rub stir mix
Sea side Apron hat wooden spoons grease line place
baking sheets ,
village cottages clouds, top sprinkle
Verbs: add
blue sky fields beach
rub stir mix grease line bake
sandy beach waves tree place top sprinkle bake
lines ocean sea front
● Imagine the dialogue that these characters are having in the picture
reading circles
Compare these two pictures:
wind
● sunny. thunder
● bright.
● unclouded.
storm
● sunshiny. high waves
● clear. thunderstorm
● balmy. heavy rain
● fair.
● temperate. cloudy
low temperature
dark
rough sea
Discuss and write a blurb for the book…
Read the section about the author that is included in the flap inside the back cover and
at the bottom of the recipe.
Talk about why Paula’s grandad Percy might have felt guilty for not being a fisherman.
Identify the ways that the baker supports the community.
Write a blurb for the book…
model writting
Model writing the beginning of a blurb:
Adapted from A Writing Root for The Baker by the Sea by Paula White. Literacy Tree
TOPICS DISCUSSION STUDENT A- STUDENT B
JOBS DISCUSSION
https://esldiscussions.com/j/jobs.html
https://thereadingroundup.com/book-talks-freebie/
PARTICIPAR EN UN CONCURS
The Beach Village
DE POSTRES TRADICIONALS: