Silly Tricks

Silly Tricks is a humorous and fictional story about two aliens and their dog playing different places in their house. When they are having a pillow fight in the bed, mom walks in! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, diagrams, and speech bubble.

Silly Tricks uses the sentence stem “We are in the _____.” 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 somewhere they can go is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

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

This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 850 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.Guided A

DRA 1

Grade K