Building Skills
Phonics
Have children look through the text and find short vowel words and add them to a class chart. Explain to children that every vowel makes a short or a long vowel sound, depending on the word they are in. Write pat, pet, pit, pot, and putt as samples on the board that they can use to say aloud. Then have children find short vowels in the book.
Word Work
List these contractions on the board: won’t, doesn’t, she’ll. Talk about what each one means. Have children volunteer to come to the board and write the words that make up each contraction.
Mechanics/Grammar
Quotation Marks
Have children look through the story to find the various conversations that Makusani had. Have children take turns reading the various parts.
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