Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel is a Newberry Medal Award Book.  First and second graders will enjoy listening to a read-aloud and at the same time will strengthen their reading comprehension skills.  The focus of reading comprehension courses isn't decoding text (reading).  It's really diving into the text and understanding what's read.  The teacher will read aloud the story (or parts of the story) at both classes. then guided by the teacher, students and teacher will work together on pages that were sent before class.  This 2-part course will focus on the following reading comprehension skills:

Class 1- Main Idea & Details
As the teacher reads, she will guide them to use their handouts to write down or draw things Toad does from his list.  Then they will make their own to-do lists just like Toad does.  

Class 2- Vocabulary & Answering 5W Questions
Students will explore multiple meanings of the word "soon" on their handout.  They will talk about and answer questions that begin with Ws-who, why, what, where, and when.

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