Authentic Actors!

This week we have been reading familiar books and working on what readers do DURING reading.  Last week we talked about what we do BEFORE reading (picture walk, looking for characters and setting on the cover).  To help the children with learning to think about the story as they read we have been focusing on story telling with character voice, story language (phrases particular to the book), and repeating phrases.  The children have loved acting out the stories and are creating puppets to help tell the stories to their 3rd grade buddies and to you, their families! Be on the look out soon for video of their theatrical performances.  

Books we have read this week:

Caps For Sale

The little mouse and the red, ripe strawberry

Henny Penny

Gingerbread Boy

Little Red Hen

**When reading at home, please encourage your child to identifying the story language, repeating phrases, and the characters, setting, and problem/solution**