Alejandra Longo

Summary
An introduction to basic Spanish words by listing the English word followed by the same word in Spanish.

Personal Reaction
It seems like a fun and relatively easy book to read aloud to students, gives you a lot of classroom extension possibilities since its bilingual.

Classroom Extension
1. I would label the pictures/color charts/numbers around our room with English and Spanish words so that the children could see them day to day.
2. When the book is referring to a body part, position, motion or size you can have the children point to or act out the word to have them make a direct connection with the word.
3. Have students that speak Spanish read the Spanish worlds to the class.… (mais)

Summary:
This book is a switch code book, it says words in English then tells them in Spanish. It starts with simple words like yes and no, then eventually grows to simple sentences.

Personal Reaction:
I love the illustrations in the book, they are very eye catching. I took three years of Spanish so I found it very interesting to see this book. I thought it was an extremely good idea to have in the classroom for when a teacher has a Spanish speaking child. The class can then learn some Spanish words and the child can relate them to English words. I'd never seen a code book such as this so I found it pretty amazing.

Classroom Extensions:
1. One way you can involve this book in the classroom is to create cards with Spanish words and then cards with the same meaning in English. Then after reading the story to the class the teacher can split the students up into groups and have them match the cards with the same meanings.
2. Also I think that after reading this book you can have a culture day. Have your students go home and get special things that help tell/explain their cultures. Such as food, decorations, stories, etc.… (mais)

Summery: "No is No Si is Yes" is a wonderful book that can get young readers learning a little bit about some basic words in spansih. As you read the book each page has an english work and then the english word in spanish. the words get harder and the sentences get longer as you get more into the book.

Personal Review: I really liked reading this book for two main reasons. The first reason is that it is easy. It isn't 3-5 sentences translated, it's only 2-3 words to a page that are translated. the second reason that I like this book is because of the illustrations. These pictures are so vivid and bright. Every charactor in the book is odd shaped and I think that's what pulled me in. This book I believe would make learning a knew language fun.

Class Ext. Ideas: 1. Before reading this book I would check the knowledge of my kids and see how many spanish words they know, if any. I would then begin to read the book stopping after each spanish word and see if they know what it is.
2. After reading the book I would test their memory and see if they were paying attention. I would set up stations around the room with numbers at one table, colors at another, and so on and so on. Each kid would have a certain amount of time to see how many spanish words they can match to english words.… (mais)