Wheels

Wheels is a fiction story about a monster showing what wheels are used for. After he puts them on, they always seem to fall off. The monster needs a parachute at the end. Readers gain information from the text, illustrations, storyboard, labels and speech bubble.

Wheels uses the sentence stem “This is for 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, labels, and speech bubbles. 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 a wheel and what it could go on is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary with high-frequency words (this). 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 (bus).

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