Baby Owl Goes Away

Baby Owl Goes Away is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about Baby Owl looking for some dinner to eat. The owl saw a hedgehog, bat, and cat and thought about eating them, but they all thought about eating the owl! When the cat chased after the owl, Mother Owl flew after the cat. Mother Owl warned Baby Owl to stay with her. The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrative text, and speech bubbles.

Baby Owl Goes Away is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the illustrative text and change in font style and size as well as the speech bubbles, layout, and design. There is an exemplar of rules at the end of the book to show Rules for Baby Owl. An activity on creating rules for them at home is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (owl), high-frequency words (come), compound words (away), and positional words (up). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Mother Owl), full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend st (stay), word family ent (went), and suffix ing (going).

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