I Like Boxes

I Like Boxes is a fictional animal fantasy story about a mouse that likes to decorate boxes. The other mice are not happy! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, symbols, and speech bubble.

I Like Boxes uses the sentence stem “I like boxes and…” 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 speech bubble. 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 themselves and two things they like is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

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

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