Fiction

Yeh-Shen, Cinderella from China

Author´s purpose to persuade

What the author wants me to do?
Help save polar bear´s homes.

What the author wants me to do?
Understand that sharks are important and interesting creatures that only kill prey to eat.

What the author wants me to do?
Take care of turtles.

Don´t let the pigeon drive the bus

By Mo Willems

Scaredy Squirrel

By Mélanie Watt

The author gives a message in a story

Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanita Havill

After listening answer the following questions:

-What happens when Jamaica wants to play ball with her brother and his friends?

-What happens when the little boy, Berto, wants to build a sandcastle with Jamaica?

-What does Jamaica learn at the end of the story?

-What do you think the author wants you to learn from reading this story?

The author uses what the characters say or do to give a message to the reader. What do you think the author´s message is in this book?

Now One Foot, Now The Other by Tomie de Paola

-What does Bobby´s grandfather help Bobby learn when he is a baby?

-After his grandfather gets sick, what does Bobby help him learn him how to do?

-What do you think the author wants you to learn about families from this story?

-What is his message about families?

Going Places by Peter and Paul Reynolds

-What does the author want you to learn from reading this story?

Shortcut by Donald Crews

Saturdays and Teacakes by Laminack

A chair for my mother by Vera B. Williams

Simon James

This is Simon James, writer and illustrator.

One of our books is ¨Leon and Bob¨ that we read aloud.

Characters and setting song

The dot

By Peter H. Reynolds

Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom

Brain jump with Ned the Neuron

Jolly Phonics group 1

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