Author: Muriel Stanek
Title: I Speak English for my Mom
Illustrator: Judith Friedman
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Theme: struggle against society
Primary Characters: Lupe
Secondary characters: Lupe’s mother
Awards: none
Date of publication: 1989
Publishing company: Silver Burdett Ginn
Summary: “I Speak English for my Mom,” is a great book about the struggle of a non-English speaking mother to deal with living in America only by having her daughter translate for her. Lupe walks daily with her mother in her errands, doctors appointments, and grocery shopping and enjoys speaking for her mother because she knows that she is a great deal of help. Lupe kind of wants a chance to just be a kid, and she feels that she cannot because she always has to speak and translate for her mother. The book ends with Lupe’s mother starting an English learning class, and Lupe getting a chance to be a kid and have fun with her friends.
Use in Classroom: This is another great book to incorporate English as a second language students in my classroom. This book also teaches words and phrases in Spanish, so this could get my students learning a different language at a young age. This also teaches the importance of helping out a family member in need, and doing what is right.
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