Whose Jungle Is It?
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What's Inside
Children can read along with a class and use the pictures and repeated words to help carry the reading. The book gives practice with early reading strategies, close attention to print, and solving new words.
Use it in circle time or a small-group lesson when you want children to follow print, notice picture clues, and talk about ideas in the book. It fits well with a Level C guided reading lesson for beginning readers.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Whose Jungle Is It? into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Early reading strategies
- Repeated words
- Using picture clues
- Pointing to print
- Solving new words
- Reading fluency
- Jungle vocabulary
Discussion Questions
- 1 Before reading, ask the child what they think they will learn about the jungle from the title, Whose Jungle Is It?
- 2 As you read, point to the repeated words and ask how hearing the same words again helps a reader keep up with the book.
- 3 When the page gives clues in the pictures, ask what the child notices and how those clues help solve a new word.
- 4 Pause to ask what the book might mean by asking whose the jungle is and what ideas that brings to mind.
- 5 After a few pages, ask how paying close attention to print helps them follow the words on the page.
- 6 At the end, ask which parts of the book helped them read more smoothly and why fluency matters.
Words to Learn
- jungle
- A jungle is a thick, wild place where many plants grow.
- fluency
- Fluency means reading smoothly and not stopping too much.
- repeat
- Repeat means to say or read the same words again.
- clue
- A clue is a hint that helps you figure something out.
- Print is the written words on a page.
- word
- A word is a group of letters that stands for an idea.
- point
- Point means to use a finger to show where a word is.
- strategy
- A strategy is a plan that helps you do something.
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