Building Skills
Phonological Awareness
Beginning with the title of this book, children may notice the difference in how the word sandwich looks. This is a great book to focus on the differences between sh and ch. Have children say the two different sounds and listen and feel the differences as the say the two sounds. Have them pay attention to what their lips and tongue are doing as they say each sound. Then have them take the sand part of the words off and say wish and wich. It is very easy to hear and feel the difference of the two sounds. See if children can come up with other words in which the two sounds are used.
Phonics
Have children go through the book looking for words that have the letter i in them. Have them say the words aloud. Then, make a list with all the words from the story that have the short i sound in them. Have one of children write them down. These words can then be added to a word wall or class dictionary, if applicable.
See the Word and Print Skills, Phonics section of the lesson plan for more information.
Word Work
High Utility Words
To reinforce retention and recognition of high utility words, you may want to incorporate the words into your weekly spelling test or play "hangman" with them. Adding them to classroom word walls and dictionaries would be helpful as well, if applicable.
A mechanics activity
This book shows a variety of punctuation marks: commas, periods, apostrophes, hyphens, a colon (page 5), an exclamation point (page 11), a question mark (page 12), and quotation marks (page 14).
Have children go through and point out the different types of punctuation marks that they find. Write down what they find and have them explain, if they can, how and when to use the different types.
This would be a great book to use to start a class list of punctuation marks, if you don’t have one already. You can have children create the list, explaining how and when to use the different types of punctuation. If they create it, it will be more meaningful to them. You can have one of children in the room create a large copy of it to put up somewhere in your classroom, for future reference.
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