Join Ms.Shanna for an engaging and diverse literary adventure as we spend each week discovering a new picture book. 📖🌅🚀🏞️🌠

🕓This class will meet twice per week on a weekly basis. That way you can join for as many weeks and new books as you would like!

Every week we will use a new picture book to look at a wide variety of literary concepts. Some examples include:

1️⃣ Author’s Purpose
2️⃣ Literary Themes
3️⃣ Text Connections
4️⃣ Character Traits
5️⃣ Story Arcs
6️⃣ Retelling/Recalling Parts of a Story
7️⃣ Comparing and Contrasting
8️⃣ Inferencing

These skills and many more play a key role in developing early literacy and strong readers. The ability to think critically and analyze a text in detail allows students to deepen and broaden their understanding and apply these skills as they continue to grow in their reading. 

✏️As a way to monitor your students progress each week there will be a graphic organizer available to print out specific to each text. These graphic organizers will help students to organize their thinking while engaging in a new reading concept.

📝Each week there will be an optional comprehension quiz available to parents upon request. This quiz can be given by parents at home to gauge how their student was able to interpret the book. 

❓Is this class right for my student❓

📚Here is a sample list of some of the Books that will be covered in this class:📚

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
Islandborn by Junot Diaz
Mother of Sharks by Melissa Cristina Marquez
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Fry Bread a Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Mailard
Pete the Cat by Kimberly and James Dean
Just Ask be Different be Brave be You by Sonia Sotomayor
The Sour Grape by Jory John and Pete Oswald
What Do You Do With An Idea by Kobi Yamada