The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle
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By Adrianna Pizzo
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle is about a young click beetle that can't flip when he clicks. Throughout the story he tries and tries, and it isn't until he is confronted with danger that he discovers something important about himself.
Possible strategy instruction:
- C: Use prior knowledge to connect with text.
- C: Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm
- A: Skip the word and then come back.
- A: Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense.
- A: Flip the sound.
- F: Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.)
- F: Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text.
- E: Tune in to interesting words, and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing.
- E: Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools.
