Here you will find Vamos a Leer Educator’s Guides, materials that consist of lesson plans and activities meant to accompany the books featured in our monthly book group, Vamos a Leer. Each book is chosen because it engages in some way with Latin America, the Caribbean or Latinos in the United States. Each Educator’s Guide includes background on the author and book, thematic lessons and activities, and resources to support or extend the use of the book in the classroom. The lesson plans and activities encourage the teaching of literacy through the content areas and are linked to the Common Core Standards used in New Mexico.
February, 2012 – Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez (Yearling, 2010)
March, 2012 – Before we were Free by Julia Alvarez (Laurel Leaf, 2004)
April, 2012 – The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt and Company, 2010)
May, 2012 – Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (Vintage, 1996)
August, 2012 – Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Cinco Puntos, 2004)
September, 2012 – The Queen of Water by Laura Resau (Delacorte, 2011)
October, 2012 – The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís (Scholastic, 2010)
November, 2012 – The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez (University of New Mexico, 1997)
December, 2012 – The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez (Yearling | Random House, 2012)
February, 2013 – Estrella’s Quinceañera by Malín Alegría
March, 2013 – Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro by Eduardo F. Calcines
April, 2013 – Journey of Dreams by Marge Pellegrino
May, 2013 – Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Later meetings and titles forthcoming.
