The Kites

The Kites is a humorous and realistic fiction story about children flying different coloured kites up in the air. The kite string gives the children a hard time and the birds are getting in the way, but one boy ties all of the kites to a tree. The tree goes up! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, and speech bubble.

The Kites uses the sentence stem “The _____ kite is going up.” 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 holding a kite is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

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

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