The Spider

The Spider is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about insects getting stuck to a spider web. They look worried until the butterfly comes and saves them all from the spider. Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, dialogue, and speech bubble.

The Spider uses a sentence stem (“Look at me,” said 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 themselves in a place they would like to be is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary with high-frequency words (look). 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 (bug).

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