Esperanza Rising

“@antisocialbritt @arhogle This is a good one for YA about being a Mexican immigrant!”

Compare and contrast Esperanza's character and track how she changes throughout the story! Activity includes template, rubric, and instructions that are all customizable!

In the district where I teach 5th grade reading, we use the Lucy Calkins Reading Workshop approach. The Reading Workshop has several units that focus on different teaching points. For the "Following Characters Into Meaning", I have chosen to read Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan and relate it to my Reading Workshop mini-lessons. This specific reading unit, "Following Characters Into Meaning", focuses on understanding character's thoughts, motivations, feelings and how they all relate to…

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Novel: Esperanza Rising Skill: Figurative language and text evidence

In the district where I teach 5th grade reading, we use the Lucy Calkins Reading Workshop approach. The Reading Workshop has several units ...

After a couple years of teaching with the Expeditionary Learning Curriculum under my belt, I learned more about Celebrations of Learning from my district. Keeping with a topic for weeks at a time, such as Human Rights, allows students to make connections between a collection of their work over a nine week period. Expeditionary Learning shares an excerpt from Leaders of Their Own Learning: Celebrations of learning are more than a display of student work and more than a party at the end of the…

Esperanza Rising Yarn Dolls. Students follow instructions inside book.

This was a very fun end of the year party that I had with my students this year, after reading the great novel, Esperanza Rising . It was a ...

Can I just say that I LOVE the book Esperanza Rising? Out of all the literature out there for kids, this one sings to me. Pam Mu ñ oz Ryan i...