I believe that this book would be a great story to use in order to model what good “show don’t tell” looks like, as well as to demonstrate why this is such an important feature of good writing.Īs I continued to read, I began to realize that the real beauty of this book however, is the story itself. As a kindergarten teacher, I am constantly trying to get my students to show me things in their writing instead of simply telling me. By using an elevated vocabulary, Soto is able to highly rely on the feature of “show, don’t tell.” Even on the first page Soto says, “Snow drifted through the streets and now that it was dusk, Christmas trees glittered in the windows.” On this first page alone Soto is able to introduce a clear setting to his readers without simply stating it. This beautifully crafted wording leads me to my next feature of notice. However, from a kindergarten teacher perspective, this book provides a wonderful opportunity for teacher’s to elevate their students’ vocabulary by introducing lots of fun and useful new terminology.
From an adult reader perspective, the text’s decadent wording stimulates the reader and creates a beautiful and fun narration to read. The story is written in such a rich language, that its words excite the mind. In this first blog post I will begin to analyze the text, beginning with a broad discussion of which aspects I connected with the most in the book.įrom its first page, Too Many Tamales is a text that is nearly impossible not to engage with.
The text I chose to engage with for this blog is Gary Soto’s Too Many Tamales.
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