Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes

Lety Muñoz’s first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don’t care if she can’t always find the right word.

When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles — so now they have to work as a team. Hunter’s not much of a team player, though. He devises a secret competition to decide who will be the official shelter scribe. Whoever helps get their animals adopted the fastest wins. The loser scoops dog food.

Lety reluctantly agrees, but she’s worried that if the shelter finds out about the contest, they’ll kick her out of the volunteer program. Then she’ll never be able to adopt Spike, her favorite dog at the shelter!

Book description from http://angelaa3.sg-host.com/my-books/lety-out-loud/

Snacks

• Reese's Puffs cereal & Keebler Scooby-Doo Graham Cracker Sticks (served in a dog bowl to look like dog food)

Activities

• Memory game -- I created pet picture and animal profile cards by scanning in the pet profiles from the book and then googling the animal breeds and finding pictures of similar animals to match each dog or cat. The girls cut out the cards to create an animal matching game. We used paper (animal footprint wrapping paper) to make a simple envelope (following instructions similar to this) and used small pieces of sticky velcro to close the envelope.

• Reader's theater -- We acted out the reader's theater script written by the author.

• Paint swatches -- The girls thought of their own creative names for the different shades of various colors and recorded them with a permanent marker on the colors.  (Blank paint swatches from Oriental Trading.)

• Pet profile -- The girls wrote a pet profile and drew a picture of a pet. (They could do a pet they have or know or a made-up pet.)