This work was conceived and designed by personnel, editors and collaborators at Editorial Panamericana, Inc.
Author Juan J. Rodríguez González, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University Curriculum & Instruction and Language & Literacy
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Introduction
Isn’t it fun to learn? Learning is acquiring or modifying the knowledge we already have. In order to learn, we should listen carefully to our teachers and follow their instructions. Whenever we are not sure of something, we should immediately ask them. Remember, teachers are our guide and inspiration.
As you can see, this is your Reader’s Portfolio. Many students say that English is hard. Please, don’t believe that. If you are disciplined you can learn a lot, and if you are willing to learn a lot, we can guarantee that this will be the class that you will like and enjoy the most.
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Your Reader’s Portfolio emphasizes values such as respect, honesty, friendship, and responsibility. Think about the following quotation by Wendy Kopp:
“When the school bell rings on day one and all our students are in their seats, we will hold the future of this nation and this world in our hands…”
What a nice quotation! I hope it serves as an inspiration because you are part of this nation and this world. Enjoy your Reader’s Portfolio!
Theme: What is respect?
What is respect? Let me see...Hmm!
Respect is...
✔ What is respect for you? Draw a picture in your notebook. listening without interrupting. agreeing to disagree. loving yourself. taking your partner’s feelings into consideration. trust and honesty. obeying friendship.
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The Dog and the Bull
One day a dog entered a haystack where a bull was eating. The dog started to growl and bark. The growling and barking didn’t let the bull eat in peace.
“You don’t respect!” said the bull. “Hay is not your type of food. You have entered here without permission. You bark and bark, and don’t let me eat.”
Moral: Respect the rights of others, so they can respect yours.
Theme: Why should we respect
Think and answer.
✔ Classroom rules
1. Wait for your turn.
2. Remain quiet while someone is talking.
3. Pay attention to the person speaking.
✔ Choose the correct answer.
1. Do you think Clarin and Clarita are paying attention to their teacher?
_______ Yes _______ No How do you know?
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Clarita ▲
Clarin
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2. How would you show respect to your teacher? Draw an X.
Let’s respect the rules at school, home, and in our community.
✔ Look at the pictures and match them to the rules.
Home rules
School rules
Community rules
✔ Draw a person that you love and respect. Write the person’s name in the line provided.
A person I respect and love a lot. His name is ______________________________ . Her name is .
✔ Look at the pictures. Who acts with respect? Draw an X in the space provided.
Vivir con valores
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I greet others.
When I arrive I say: “How are you?”
If I want something: “Please!”
Then I say: “Thank you!”
When I am leaving: “Good-bye!”
✔ Draw a circle around the expressions that demonstrate good habits.
✔ There are many rules at home. Which ones can you think of? Draw one of them.
I respect this rule at home.
✔ Color the circles which demonstrate that you respect yourself in red.
I respect myself.
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✔ Showing respect in school is important.
Raising your hand in class is a way of showing respect.
Draw a picture.
✔ Read the story Veronica and Her Friends.
Veronica and Her Friends
Veronica lives in Lares. She has many friends. But her best friends are her duck and her frog.
When Veronica comes home from school, she goes to play with her friends. She likes to play hide-and-seek. She also likes to swim in the pond with them. The duck and the frog respect Veronica.
After taking care of them, Veronica says good-bye and walks back home. She loves her duck and frog. She loves her best friends!
1. What does Veronica do when she gets home?
a. She says good-bye. b. She plays with her friends. c. She does her homework. d. She sleeps.
2. What does Veronica like to do with her friends?
a. She likes to eat. b. She likes to play.
c. She takes care of them. d. She loves them.
3. Who are Veronica’s best friends?
a. A frog and a butterfly. b. A frog and a horse.
c. A frog and a duck.
d. A frog and a dog.
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✔ Look at the two pictures carefully. Select one, color it, and write two sentences about it.
1 2
✔ Read the words and phrases in the box below. Use them to complete the sentences.
listen to them take her by the hand respect give him my seat
1. It is important to elderly people.
2. If an elderly lady is going to cross the street and it seems hard for her, I should __________________ to make sure she doesn’t fall.
3. If I am at a waiting room, and an elderly man comes in, I should __________________ .
4. Some elderly people live by themselves, and like to be visited to talk about their experiences; that’s why I should __________________ with attention and care.
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✔ Read the following poem.
My Friend
I was angry with my friend I told my friend, This is the end! You cheated in the soccer game, and then you shouted out my name. You said it was me, but made a mistake. I didn’t cheat, you know it was Jake!
1. Why was the boy angry?
2. Who do you think cheated in the game? How do you know?
3. For discussion: Do you think the value of respect is present in this poem? Yes or no and why?
The Lion and the Mouse
A lion was asleep in the forest. He had his head resting on his paws. A timid little mouse came upon him unexpectedly. She was afraid and wanted to run away. But she ran across the lion’s nose. The lion woke up from his nap. He laid his big paw on the little mouse.
“I’m sorry!” said the timid mouse. “Please let me go and someday I will repay you.”
The lion was so amused at the idea of the little mouse being able to help the King of Beasts, that he lifted up his paw and let her go.
Some weeks later, the lion was caught in a net. The hunters, who wanted to carry the lion alive to their King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him.
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Just then the little mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the lion’s sad problem, went up to him and soon bit off the ropes of the net, setting the lion free.
“You have helped me and now I have returned the favor. Was I not right - even a mouse can help a lion!” said the little mouse.
1. Color the lion.
2. Draw a picture of the lion and the mouse and write your own story about them.
My story of the lion and the mouse.
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Honesty
I wonder what honesty is? Are you honest with yourself? With others?
Can you write your definition of honesty in the lines provided?
Pinocchio
If Pinocchio told lies, his nose would grow and grow; and if he told the truth, everybody would reward him.
“Oh, dear me! Because I told a lie I look like this.”
That’s what he would say while his nose would grow and grow.
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✔ Draw a picture of someone who is honest.
✔ What happens when you don’t tell the truth?
✔ If you could give Pinocchio an advice, what would it be?
I would tell him…
✔ Look at the pictures.
Anna, are you sure?
Do you know where my glasses are?
Mommy, here they are. I was playing with them.
At the end of the story, Anna told the truth. Why?
What would have happened if she would not have said the truth?
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✔ Read and answer the questions.
Peter and Juan are friends. They like to play football. Yesterday, while they were playing, Peter kicked the ball and broke the window of a car. He was afraid and told Juan not to say anything.
1. What do you think about this?
2. If you were Juan, what would you tell Peter?
✔ Color these friends. They like to tell the truth.
We are honest.
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Peter is honest
Peter was a very poor boy. His father worked at a supermarket. Sometimes, Peter went with him to the supermarket.
One day, while Peter was at the supermarket, he saw an elderly lady putting fruit inside a bag. He went near to help her, but she pushed him away because she was afraid he would take some of the fruit. The elderly lady paid for the fruit and when she put her wallet inside her purse, it fell on the floor without her noticing it. Peter, who was looking, took the wallet and thought, “Wow! There is so much money in here for my entire family to eat for a week.”
Do you want to know what Peter did?
He ran to the elderly lady. When she saw him again, she said,
“Look kid, I already told you that I don’t want you to help me!”
“Lady,” Peter said, “I just want to return this wallet to you. It fell on the floor and you didn’t notice it.”
The lady looked inside her purse and exclaimed, “How unfair have I been! Such an honest boy and I rejected you. Come with me so I can give you all that you need for you and your family.”
Since then, everybody in the neighborhood calls Peter, the honest boy, because of his honesty.
Why should we be honest?
✔ Put the events of the story in order.
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Peter is a poor boy. He found a wallet full of money and returned it. What do you think about his behavior? If it was you, what would you have done?
✔ Read and then think about the effect of each action.
Honesty requires …
Complying with what we have promised. Always saying the truth. Never taking what doesn’t belong to us. Not talking bad about anybody.
Action Effect
The Wolf and the Lamb
A wolf was drinking at a spring on a hillside. On looking up he saw a lamb just beginning to drink lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to grab it.” He called out to the lamb, “How dare you mess my drinking water?”
“No,” said the lamb; “if the water is muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.”
“Well, then,” said the wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?”
“That cannot be,” said the lamb; “I am only six months old.”
“I don’t care,” snarled the wolf; “if it was not you, it was your father!” and with that he rushed upon the poor little lamb and ate her all up.
Moral: Tyrants need no excuse.
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Why should we always tell the truth?
✔ Look for the following words in the MAZE.
honesty truth confidence honor loyalty
l o y a l y e d s c
o n h o n e s t y o y o o r f t r u e n
a l n o r f t l s f
a l o y a l t y o i
l o r h o n r o l d
c a t e y e u c h e
o n f i d e t n c n
n f i d e n h c e c
i h o t t u c o c e
✔ Read the following quotation and answer the questions below.
“We all need to know what it means to be honest. Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”
–James E. Faust
1. What does it mean to be honest?
2. Why is being honest to tell the truth?
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“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
–Brigham Young
✔ Color the heart and write a word or phrase inside related to honesty.
