A Big Laugh

A Big Laugh is a humorous and realistic fiction story about a dad making lunch. He first burnt the sausages and then tried to make sandwiches instead. There were ants all over the bread so he tried to vacuum them off. The vacuum sucked up all the bread! Everyone laughed. The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrative text.

A Big Laugh is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. There is a comic strip at the end of the book to summarize the events. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the changes in font style like bold and illustrative text as well as the speech bubbles, layout, and design of the comic strip. An activity on drawing and writing about what they might have for lunch is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (oops), high-frequency words (make), and positional words (inside). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Dad), full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend sm (smoke), word family ent (went), and suffix ed (laughed).

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