Book Walk
Show students the cover of the book. Read the title with them and discuss the illustration. Have students make initial predictions about the book.
Ask: What do you see on the cover? Why might Jupe be getting a pet? What kind of pet do you think she will get?
Give students worksheet 1 and have them write their predictions about Jupe's pet in column 1. Discuss students’ ideas.
Then, show students pages 1 through 9 so that they can continue their predictions about the pet. When you have looked at the illustrations up to that point, have students confirm or revise their predictions on the prediction chart. Ask questions about what they see in the pictures and reinforce the language they will encounter in the text.
Pages 3–4
Ask: What kinds of pets are the monsters thinking about? Would a dinosaur make a good pet for Jupe?
Page 5
Ask: What is an alien? Would an alien make a good pet?
Pages 6––9
Ask and say: What presents does Jupe get? What do you think is in the box from Uzzle? Write your ideas on the prediction chart in the second column. You are going to read to find out what pet Jupe gets. 

Reading Strategies
Ask students what strategies they will use to work out difficult words. Discuss how sound/symbol relationships help them decode new words. Ensure that they recognize the following strategies:

• Sound out words using what they know about letters and sounds
• Check the illustrations to see if what they are reading makes sense
• Reread the sentence to check that the word makes sense
• Reread any sentence or page that was difficult