How+Rocket+Learned+to+Read

//Kimberly Jones// Hills, T. (2010). How Rocket learned to read. New York, NY: Schwartz & Wade Books. Boo k cover: Hills, T. (2010). //How Rocket learned to read.// Retrieved on July 21, 2011 from: http://www.sheistoofondofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/how-rocket-learned-to-read.jpg

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Rocket is a regular dog that likes to do regular "dog things". One day while attempting to take his nap, a little yellow bird approaches him and offers to teach Rocket how to read. You can follow along as Rocket learns the alphabet, pronunciation, and eventually reading.

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Activity Packet

All about Tad Hills

Reading WebQuest

Reading resources for parents and Teachers

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1.) Describe the best environment for learning how to read.

2.) Compare/contrast when you learned how to read to Rocket's experience of learning how to read.

3.) Make inferences as to how someone's life may be different if they never learn how to read.

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 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Have students think about the very first book that they loved to read.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A few students a week will visit the lower level classes and read aloud their favorite book to the class.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">You could also expand upon this by having students wok in groups of three. They will videotape their classmates reading their favorite book aloud.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The videos could be put together on one disk.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The students in the lower grades could watch these videos with headphones during stations.