Where's My Mummy?

We took a very close look at a great book this week. We  asked questions at the beginning, middle, and end of the text. We used adjectives to describe the characters and setting. We practiced what is is a good retell when we retold the story in sequence. Students remembered to use a story teller's voice and language from the story. Hooray!  How can you support their thinking at home? Discuss characters in detail, notice the setting of stories and practice retelling stories when you are reading with your first grader!

Good retells include the characters and their names, the setting (when and where-time of day or season and place), the problem, the beginning, middle, and end. It includes the solution and author's message, too.

Our guiding question is:

How does comparing the adventures of characters help us to comprehend and remember the books we read?

We will have to compare the adventures of the characters to prove our answer. I have multiple copies of both books, a video and a handout to help us understand what comparing means. As a group, we will need to decide what our work will look like.  Will students meet in small groups to read and study the books or will we do it whole group? We can not do partners at the beginning of the year since many of us are still working on our reading skills. How will we show what we know? Post-its?

Posters? Video? Presentations to another class?