Pam Dowson
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Re:Reading Activity - 2008/06/08 10:09
What you describe sounds more like guided rather than shared reading, which is usually done with the whole class. If that is the case you couldn't do better than look at Nikki's own book 'Guiding Reading' which offers many excellent ideas. You could also go to http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/ahlberg.htm which has several links to lesson plans for the book you mention and lots of other Ahlberg books.
Generally, it sometimes works well to give the children a pre-activity linked to what you want to get out of the book, so that they come prepared in some way. With 'Each Peach' for example, you might have asked them to list as many nursery rhyme characters as they could think of, so that they may be able to spot them in the book. You could start the session by playing a quick game of the standard 'I Spy', and you could even give them their own cut-out spy holes to look through, like the holes in the book.
If you want to focus on characters, they could be listed 'Good' and'Bad', giving reasons for their choices. You could ask 'What might have made them bad?' to get in a bit of Philosophy!
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