Look at the cover of the book. What do you think the book is going to be about?

Can you help me read the title?

What do you see in the picture?

What do you think the girl is doing?

Discuss the parts of a book - cover, spine, author, and illustrator.

Review title page - "Let's read the title again." Have students point to each word as they read to follow left to right directionality.

Look at the title page.

What does this tell you about the story you have in your head?

Does the picture tell you about what we will read in the book?

Read page two and look at the picture.

What is the boy doing in the picture?

Can you paint a picture?

Now read page three.

What is happening in this picture?

How did you know you read the word "bike" correctly?

Can you ride a bike?

Read page four.

What are the two friends doing?

What can you do to be a good friend?

Read page five.

What is happening in this picture?

Look at the new word. What two words make up our new word?

Have you ever played with snow before?

Read page six.

How did you know you were right? Let's check.

What is the girl doing?

Does the picture go along with the sentence?

Can you tie your own shoe laces?

Read page seven and ask these questions:

What are the two boys doing?

How did you know they were playing basketball?

Let's read the sentence.

Does the picture go along with the sentence?

Do you play basketball?

Reade page eight and ask these questions:

What is the girl in this picture doing?

Teacher points to the exclamation point.
What is this? What does it mean?