Big Bill's Bed

Big Bill’s Bed is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a flea jumping into Big Bill’s bed. Big Bill then went to bed and realized there is a flea in his bed. Big Bill flapped and banged and thought flea was gone. Flea kept bugging Big Bill so he moved to sleep on the floor…Flea got the whole bed! The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrative text.

Big Bill’s Bed 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 changes in font style like bold and illustrative text as well as the purpose, layout, and design of a sequence. There is a story sequence at the end of the book to demonstrate the order of events. An activity on designing and writing about a bed for Flea is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (flap), high-frequency words (good), and positional words (down). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for sentence beginnings and names (Flea), full stops, commas, quotation marks, ellipses, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend fl (floor), word family ed (bed), and suffix ing (going).

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