Help for Rhino!

Help for Rhino is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a little bird wanting to stay on Rhino to help him. Rhino did not want any help. Little Bird saw a man taking pictures and warned Rhino. Rhino chased the man away and was thankful that bird helped him. The story is narrated with dialogue and illustrative text.

Help for Rhino 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 drawing and writing about how they can help someone is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (helicopter), high-frequency words (good), and positional words (out). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Rhino), full stops, commas, quotation marks, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend st (stay), word family ay (stay), and suffix ing (going).

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