Upper Emergent and Early Fluency Levels
Background: I use this book with my level 16-18 readers. This book has no words and relies on the student to construct the meaning by gleaning information from the pictures.
Story Introduction
Ask the students to talk about making and eating pancakes.
* What do you need to make pancakes?
* How do you cook them?
* What do you put on top of them when they are ready to eat?
First Reading
Show the students the cover and read the title together.
Start reading the book together.
Model to the students how to “read” the pictures.
Explain that the thought balloon over the woman’s head tells what she is thinking.
Encourage the students to predict what they think might happen next.
Second Reading
Students and teacher take turns reading the story.
Discussion
Ask the students questions.
* What is your favorite part of the book?
* What happens first, second, and third?
* What do you think, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again” means?
Mini Language Lesson
Students will recognize the initial consonant m.
Teacher will point to the pictures in the book labeled “milk” and “maple”.
Teacher will ask the students what letter they see and hear at the beginning of each of these words.
Teacher will verbally run through a list of words. Each time the students hear a word that begins with m they will raise their hands.
* Milk, mail, map, hat, nail, music, microphone, pan, moon, funny, band, monkey, paper, money.
Follow-up Activity/Independent Practice
Students will write a story with pictures.
Ask students to think of a time when they wanted something very badly.
*What happened?
* How did you work to get it?
* Did something happen before you got what you wanted?
Students will fold a piece of paper into thirds. The thirds will be labeled 1, 2, and 3.
The students will draw three pictures to tell what happened first, what happened next, and what happened in the end.
When the students finish, they take turns reading their picture stories.
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