Created by: Kim Mestl
Title of novel: El Escape
Author of novel: A.C. Quintero
Level: Level 3 +
Brief summary of the novel: A group of 3 teenage boys have bonded together due to similar bad family experiences. They frequently go to the park to skateboard, watch youtube videos. They use an old bookstore as their “Hideout” one day they stumble upon an incident.
Topics: sports, friendship
Themes: family
Pre-reading activities:
- Three pictures or objects about things that are in the book, put students in groups and have them come up with how these objects are connected and what role do they play in the book.
- Pick a sentence from the book, give it to a group and they must form sentences using 3 words from the original sentence.
- The teacher picks 15-20 new vocabulary words from the chapter(s), the students take a strip of paper numbered 1-5 and put 1 of the words in that number space. Then while reading as they hear a word they tear off that word, you can only tear off the word if it is on the edge. (ex. If their #3 word is the 1st they hear they cannot tear it off)
Enrichment activities while reading:
- Have students read a chapter on their own, pick 2 scenes out of the chapter and make a drawing to represent this. Then as a class the teacher reads the chapter and as their scene takes place the students put their drawings in order of the events taking place.
- Show realia from the culture (country) that your book takes place in.
Post-reading activities:
- Have kids write a summary of chapter or book with an exact number of words they have to use in the target language.
- ¿Quién soy? Similar to the dating game, assign “main characters to 3-5 students, the other students must ask questions to solve the mystery character.
Focus on Reading 