I Like Elephants

I Like Elephants is a realistic fiction story about the different animals that children like. A boy at the end says “shoo!” to the monkeys, birds, and bears. He likes the elephants. Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, and speech bubbles.

I Like Elephants uses the sentence stem “I like…” 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 bubbles. There is a high frequency word list within an illustration at the end of the story. An activity on drawing a picture with speech bubbles of themselves with something 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 (birds).

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