Grass for Dinner

Grass for Dinner is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about animals having grass for dinner and not looking happy about it. They all look through a window and see cat having sausages for dinner! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, dialogue, and caption.

Grass for Dinner uses a sentence stem (“Grass for dinner” said the _____.). Illustrations match the text. The story includes triggering in questions. There are critical thinking questions to guide the reader. A teacher guide for reading the text and visual information is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to illustrations, starting points, and caption. There is a high frequency word list within an illustration at the end of the story. An activity on drawing a picture with a caption of what they would like for dinner is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary with high-frequency words (said). Focus on word differentiation by having them locate focus words in the high-frequency word list illustration. Opportunities arise to focus on initial consonant c (cow).

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