Ice Cream

Ice Cream is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a man who serves ice cream to different animals in the jungle. The animals like different toppings on their ice cream...except for the elephant. The elephant wants extra ice cream! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, and speech bubble.

I Can Help uses the sentence stem “You like ice cream 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 speech bubbles of themselves eating ice cream with something unusual on it 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 (bones).

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