If You. . .

If you could fly like a flying squirrel you would be as graceful as a ballerina

Blessed Books

Pretzel 

Charlotte's Web

Grace Based Parenting

The Book Thief

Great Expectations

Every Song Has it's Secret

The Power of a Praying Parent


Eloise Greenfield books for African American background
Honey I love

Reading Strategies

First Day Jitters by Julie Dannenberg

• Author's purpose
• Connections
• Using prior knowledge
• Predict

Bat Loves The Night by Nicola Davies

• Use text to support thinking
• Rereading
• Navigating text features
• Determining importance

Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne

• Considering point of view
• Identify a theme

• synthesis
• making judgements

• text-to self
• text-to world
• text to text
• making generalizations
• illustrators purpose
• identifying theme