Chato's Kitchen
Multicultural Book Project
Book Cover
Illustration from the book
Illustration from the book
Information about the Book
Illustrator: Susan Guevara
Genre: Comedy and Humor
Topics: Hispanic and Latin Americans
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Criteria For High Quality Multicultural Literature
2. This book demonstrates unique language and style. In this book, there are different words that are stated in Spanish. While this story takes place in East L.A., it demonstrates that there is a pull between two cultures, where people are influenced with English but still value what is important in their Native Culture. I think that this is important for ESL students to see, that having another culture that influences their life is valuable to not only them but to the people around them.
3. This book honors and celebrates diversity as well as common bonds in humanity. I think that this book is a great representation of a book that celebrates diversity. This book gives an accurate look into how other cultures value different things. This book depicts accurate language and text diction to what would be found in East L.A.
Chato's Kitchen Lesson Idea
Standard:
RL.2.7 – Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Objective:
The students will be able to use context clues and pictures to determine the meaning of words from the text.
Lesson Procedure:
- To start the lesson, the students will all be given an illustration from the book. They will be asked to make predictions with their elbow partner on what the text is going to say about the picture when we read the story. The students will be asked to keep those thoughts and predictions in their heads. They will be asked to write down key details from their picture that helped them predict what is going to happen in the story.
- Next, we will read the story out loud, when the student's hear a word that they do not recognize, that isn't in English, they will be asked to give a "thumbs down." When the page has been read, the teacher will ask what words were unfamiliar and what their predictions are on what that word means based on the rest of the page. The teacher will also write the words in Spanish on the board so students can see a visual representation of the word. The teacher will write the students predictions of the words on the board for everyone to see.
- After the story has ended, the teacher will write the translated word in English on the board next to the Spanish word. Students will be asked, Were our predictions correct? What evidence from the text and illustrations from the book lead us to our predictions? Students will discuss in pairs and then share with the class.
- To end the lesson students will return to their picture they started with and the list of important details that they listed. Students will be asked to write if their predictions were correct and if they were not, what was different and why they thought it was different.