MAKING TRADITIONAL TALES CULTURALLY RELEVANT Josephine Rubio, Edith Ríos y David Córdoba

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK  Vytogsky  Moll  Culturally relevant pedagogy by Gloria Ladson Billing

What stories? For compare and contrast

 Goldilocks and the three bears  Rubia and the three osos  Cinderella  Estrellita de oro ADDITIONAL TITLES  The three Billiy Goats Gruff  Los tres chivitos gruff  Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes  Songs

RESULTS OF THE DISCUSSIONS

READER’S THEATER

Our Own Traditional Tale Audio 1 Audio 2

LANG ARTS BILINGUAL CENTERS Three Billy Goats Gruff Story Retell English & Spanish Book 3 plastic goats 1 plastic troll (or creature) wooden geometric shapes (from upper grades) The Three Little Pigs Story Retell Book 4 plastic pigs 3 houses 1 wolf

LANG ARTS BILINGUAL CENTERS Gingerbread Man Several versions of book Three Little Pigs Interactive book Little Red Riding Hood Interactive book 3D book Anansi and the moss covered rock Plastic animals (lion, deer, elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, zebra, little bush) & Plastic food

MATH BILINGUAL CENTERS How Many Legs Spider Patterns Different Colored Spiders Drawing characters with shapes. Three Billy Goats Gruff Seriating different lengths of yarn

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES BILINGUAL CENTERS  Science and Social Studies Three Billy Goats Gruff Sink/Float Comparing/Naming Spiders Little Red Riding Hood Puppet show Anansi Play-Doh (body parts of Spider)

ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS  Culturally relevant Story: “El coyote y la tortuga” Mentioned by some parents Read aloud story included in Tesoros Good for story comprehension and other skills, like story structure

ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS Story comprehension Strategies used: think aloud, think-pair-share, turn-and-talk

ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS Story structure (beginning, middle and end)

ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS Story structure (beginning, middle and end)

ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS  Traditional Mexican song: “La pulga de san José” (by José Luis Orozco) Several parents alluded to this song Most children knew it Excellent opportunity to work on rhythm and rhymes

ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS Rhythm and rhymes