Monkeys

Monkeys is a fictional animal fantasy story about two monkeys playing tricks on one another…until one falls! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, thought bubble, and speech bubble.

Monkeys uses the sentence stem “I am…” 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, thought bubble, 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 laughing, crying, sleeping, or eating is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

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

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