Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
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By Samantha Behne
This story follows a little red chicken and her papa during their bedtime stories. With every story Papa starts to read, the little red chicken can’t help but end the story early before any of the characters get hurt. Papa begins to wonder if the little red chicken will ever fall asleep or will just continue to interrupt.
Possible Strategies for Instruction:
Comprehension
- Infer and support with evidence
- Infer: The little chicken doesn’t like it when bad things happen in a story
- Ask questions throughout the reading process
Accuracy
- Look for word parts.Sometimes when we are reading, there are word parts or patterns that can help us read a word
Fluency
- Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody
Expand Vocabulary
- Tune in to interesting words
