Children can:

• participate in the reading using their sense of rhyme or understanding of a cumulative pattern?        
• make use of visual clues?        
• discuss techniques or media used in the illustrations?        
• make predictions?        
• develop or apply knowledge of word families (using onsets and rimes)?        
• develop concepts and new vocabulary?        
• add to their bank of sight words?        
• classify words?        
• dramatize story events?        
• incorporate new sentence structures into their own spoken or written communications?        
• relate the story to their own lives?  

Day One

• Reading for Enjoyment
• Rereading using Shared Reading techniques to focus on rhyme and predictable story pattern

Day Two

• Shared Reading Focus on concepts of word, sentence, and punctuation  
• Shared Reading
• Focus on new vocabulary and sight words Categorizing words

Day Three

• Shared Reading
• Focus on letter-sound (spelling) patterns

Day Four

• Responding to Literature activities (dramatizing story events, creating a dance using key vocabulary)
• Reading personal copy of text with the class, then read with a "buddy"
• Independent Reading of text for/with the teacher
• Illustrating a copy of text

Day Five

• Sharing the text with someone else (taking copy of illustrated text home to read to family)

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