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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing their work with this text.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nWith kindness, all people are encouraged to grow and change.\nSynopsis\nThis typical Iowa farm summer becomes a special one for young Tomás when he is befriended by the local librarian. Eager to read and share his gifts, Tomás is encouraged to assume the role of family storyteller, finding that he cannot only be a learner but a teacher as well. This gentle story details the relationship between Spanish-speaking Tomás, his family and the English-speaking librarian and the encouragement and comfort it provided him.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently without interruption.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and return to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (e.g., whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText Dependent Questions\nAnswers\nWhat time of year is it when the story begins? How do you know?(p. 161)\nIt is summer. We know because the family is in the car traveling to Iowa and it is hot. The family works for farmers in Texas in the winter and for Iowa farmers in the summer “year after year”.\nDescribe how the author introduces the reader to Tomás. Who is telling the story? (p. 162)\nThe family is in the car in the middle of the night traveling from Texas to Iowa to farm for the summer “again”. Tomás misses his bed at home and tells his mother he is hot by saying, “if I had a glass  of cold water…I would pour the last drops of water on my face.” He helps his grandfather out of the car, bids his family members “Buenas noches” and “curls up on the cot” to sleep. 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