📖 Picture Walk Storyteller

Contador de cuentos con dibujos

📖 Literacy & Language RL.K.1SL.K.5RF.K.1
🖨️ Print

Objective: Practice book handling and 'reading' the pictures to tell a story in Spanish without reading the words.

⏱️ ~30 min 🧺 2 min setup · art

🧺 Materials

  • any picture book from home

📋 Instructions (parent)

  1. Choose any picture book and hold it together, showing the front cover.
  2. Point to the cover and ask your child what they think the story is about.
  3. Turn the pages one at a time, left to right, letting your child 'read' each picture in Spanish.
  4. Ask what is happening on each page and who the characters are.
  5. At the end, ask your child to guess what might happen next if the book kept going.

➕ Extension ideas

  • Let your child hold the book and 'read' the pictures to you as the teacher.
  • Cover the words with sticky notes and make up brand-new words for the pictures.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

Español
Vamos a leer los dibujos de este libro. No importan las letras hoy; vamos a mirar las imágenes. Mira la portada. ¿De qué crees que trata este cuento? Pasa la página con cuidado y dime qué ves.

💬 Conversation prompts

  • ¿Qué ves en la portada?
  • ¿Qué está pasando en este dibujo?
  • ¿Quién es este personaje?
  • ¿Qué crees que va a pasar después?
  • ¿Cuál dibujo te gustó más?

🔑 Vocabulary

  • libro — book
  • portada — cover
  • página — page
  • dibujo — picture / drawing
  • mira — look
  • pasa la página — turn the page
  • personaje — character

Other ways to do it

⚡ 5-minute version

Just look at the cover and first two pages and describe the pictures in Spanish.

🚗 Car version

Talk about a favorite book from memory and describe the pictures you remember.

😴 No-energy version

Snuggle with one book and slowly point to and name things in the pictures.

🎯 California standards covered

RL.K.1 Asking & Answering Questions
“I can ask and answer questions about a story we read together.”
SL.K.5 Adding Drawings to Ideas
“I can draw a picture to help show what I am talking about.”
RF.K.1 Print Concepts
“I can follow words from left to right and top to bottom on a page.”
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