Text 7- El arbol generoso (ability)

    This book is fairly popular in English. It is The Giving Tree. The book starts off when the boy talks to the tree and plays with the trees branches but as he grows older, he needs more things. He decided that he needed things so she let him sell her apples. When he becomes an adult he needs a house and she tells him he can use her branches to build the house. Then he wants a boat and cuts her trunk. Then he just needs somewhere to seat and uses her stump. These were all in different stages of his life and after everything the phrase "And the tree was happy"

Bibliography:
Silverstein, Shel. El Arbol Generoso. N.p.: Evil Eye Music, 1964. Print.

     I believe this is a beneficial book to read in Spanish class for several reasons. It is simple and it students can identify with the book because they have read it before. This will give them a background reference and can help them decipher the meaning of the book or certain phrases. There are also very useful illustrations that can be very good context clues. But the most important thing of all is the being able to distinguish between the preterite and the imperfect. This is something that can be hard to understand for native English speakers and this book does a very good job at helping students distinguish between them. It the end of the day, the ability to do this in Spanish class will be essential and helping them by giving them something they are familiar with is even better.