Building Skills
Phonics
Introduce or review silent letters. Have children identify some of the silent letters in the book, including doubled letters. Explain that in English there are often letters that are not pronounced in words. For those words, spelling must be memorized, and the words have to be recognized by sight, rather than sounding them out.
Word Work
Mechanics: Quotation marks
Say: Quotation marks are used to set off any words that are spoken by a character in a story. In the sentence "Hey! It's stopped snowing," they shouted, quotation marks let you know that a person is speaking the words "Hey! It's stopped snowing," and where the quotation begins and ends.
Remind children that there should always be two sets of quotation marks, one where the character's dialogue begins, and the other where it ends.
Work through the following sentences with children, putting quotation marks where they are needed.
Where's Snubby Nose? said Mother Hopper.
Of course not, said Papa Hopper. Look on your chair, Snubby Nose.
But wait! We've forgotten to make a way in, said Snubby Nose.
And how will I get out? said a voice from inside the igloo.
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