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In this video, the teacher conducts an interactive reading of the final pages of Burro’s Tortillas. Features include explicit attention on story beginning, middle, and end; review of story details such as character, plot, and dialogue; interactive dialogue; story theme/message; and use of prediction.

In this video, the teacher introduces the Burro’s Tortillas lesson plan, explains its connection to “The Little Red Hen,” and discusses why her students love the story. This is an example of culturally responsive instruction that makes text-to-text connections.

The teacher uses Venn Diagram to compare Burro’s Tortillas and “The Little Red Hen.” The teacher provides story details and elements, and scaffolded instruction through the use of visuals.

In this video, the teacher describes the “realia” activity she used to introduce Burro’s Tortillas and some of the items she brought into the classroom for the lesson. To build and connect to background knowledge, the teacher uses culturally relevant artifacts and activities and student’s native language to draw upon students’ existing knowledge.

In this video, the teacher walks her students through a cooperative paragraph summarizing story beginning, middle, and end, using small group work, visual support to foster interaction and oral language development and content-embedded written “mistakes” to teach spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.