Encourage close reading of the text and a focus on how Sandra Cisneros' develops her characters with an activity that asks teams to sort, group, and label character descriptions from The House on Mango Street.

Concepts

reading comprehension strategies, similes, metaphors

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have groups create an illustration of one of the characters based on the descriptions and post these images about the room

Classroom Considerations

• The seventh in a series of 11 resources designed for The House on Mango Street

 

Pros

• The resource includes a rationale and directions for the activity as well as a list of descriptions taken from the story

Cons

• A template for the quotation cards is not included in the resource