The Water

The Water is a realistic fiction story about different animals going into water and swimming. They are having fun…until the elephant jumps in! Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, and speech bubble.

The Water uses the same repeating sentence “I can go in the water.” One word changes on the last page. 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, speech bubble and caption. 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 something they can go in is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

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

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