One Stormy Night...

This week during Shared Reading, our class focused on the Big Book, One Stormy Night.  We found out that it was written by the same author as some of our other books, Joy Cowley!  We reinforced the different parts of the book that we have been learning about during Reading Workshop: title, title page, author, illustrator, sentences, words, and letters. To reinforce these concepts at home, as you read with your child, ask him/her to point out the different parts of the book or name them as you point them out.  

While we read the book together, we had fun listening for the different sound words that the author used to describe what the characters were hearing throughout the story.  After reading, we thought about some of the different events in the book through the use of "Wh" questions - who, what, where, when, and why.  We've really been working on the difference between a question and a statement. Questions are things we don't know the answer to, things we want to find out.  This is a great concept to reinforce when you are having conversations with your child about any topic!