La venta de garaje 6-pack Author: Fran Hunia ISBN: 9780790328690 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections, Summarizing Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

In this narrative, a family goes to a yard sale looking for clothes to replace their old ones.  This story makes links to the students’ experiences of yard sales, markets, or school fairs and the excitement of finding unexpected treasures.  This is a relatively long text, so you may need to
allow more time for the first reading.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of making connections with real-life experiences and summarizing the main ideas.

Text features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the way the family work together to solve their problems
• the unnamed, first-person narrator
• the relatively complex narrative structure (including the problem with the table)
• the markers of time – on Saturday morning, by eight o’clock, the first, the next, then
• the use of dialogue to drive the narrative
• the colloquial language – just right, on our way, right, way too small
• the contractions – can’t, didn’t, let’s, o’clock, they’ll
• the use of hyperbole – it had everything!
• the use of commas for phrasing
• the irregular past-tense verbs – bought, felt
• the compound words – anything, everything, necklace, newspaper
• the detailed illustrations

For more information please see our Lesson Plan