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Don't know if this will help
By Tanya

Hi I haven't read this book but since noone has replied yet I thought I would try some ideas. If it is a picture book, you could pull some vocabulary words out of the book and do a sort and predict before you actually read
the book to them. Write the words on tagboard and give one word to each student. Have the students figure out what their words means or do it together as a class and have them try to sort the words into some sort of categories. Once they have categorized them, have the students write a prediction of what the story might be about. On day 2, if the book has great illustrations, put the

students into partners and show one half of the partners a picture from the book and have them explain the picture to their partner. Then show the other partner a different picture and they explain the picture to their partner. Once you have continued this alternating, see if the partners can come up with the story. Then read the story to them. After you have read them the story you can have them write in role as one of the characters. If the book has a few characters you can play a game called "hot seat". Choose a student to play each character and come and sit in chairs at the front of the class. The rest of the class gets to ask the characters from the story questions and the students who are in the "hot seat" have to answer the questions as if they were that character. This really lets you see if the students understood the story. Then you could have them write in role because they have had some practice with the hot seat.