Emerson Elementary School

I can read with purpose and understanding.

I can retell stories with important parts of the story.

I can identify the main topic of a story.

I can identify letters and read sight words.

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Stone Soup

Everything is Different at Nonna's House

 Tooth-Gnasher Superflash

Questions

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directions

1. Have you ever known someone who didn’t want to share with you?
2. Have you ever not wanted to share with someone else?
3. Can you think of a time when real people you know worked together to make something?
4. At the beginning of the story, the villagers are sad. How do they feel at the end of the story? Why do they become happy?

Listen to the reading of Everything is Different at Nonna’s House.

Can you retell the story using the beginning, middle, and end?

What does an author do?

What does an illustrator do?

What was the main idea of this story?

Who were the characters in this story?

Where did this story take place?

Listen to the reading of Tooth-Gnasher Superflash

 Can you retell the story using the beginning, middle, and end?

Who were the characters in this story?

Where did the story take place (setting)?

 Do you have any connections to this story?

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Read on Your Own (ROYO) book:

I Like it Here

Before reading I Like It Here to your child, ask:

What do you think this story will be about? How do you know?

Print Concepts:

1. Explain to your child that when we read, we start on the left page.

1. Run your finger below the words on page 2. Ask your child to use his/her fingers to follow along with you. Explain that we read the first line from the left to the right.

1. When we come to the end of the line, we go down and back to the left. After we read the last word on a page, we go on to the next page.

Read I Like It Here to your child. Ask him/her to look and listen carefully to the story as you read.

After reading:

Ask your child to retell this story using character names, setting, and the beginning/middle/and end.

Have your child try to read I Like It Here. Help when needed.

Ask your child to be on the lookout for sight words good/they and all the other sight words he/she knows while they’re reading to you.

After reading ask:

1. Why do Kit and Kip like their home?
2. What do you like about where you live?
3. What do real bears need to have where they live?
4. How is the toy bears’ home different from the real bears’ home?

Have your child read I Like It Here to you.

Ask your child to be on the lookout for  all the sight words he/she knows while they’re reading.

After reading:

Take a look at the last page with the Kk, good and they.

Ask your child to use the word good in a sentence.

Ask your child to use the word they in a sentence.

Show your child sounds for K Ask you child which pictures begin with K.