This is such a great way to strengthen students’ oral language skills in an authentic way. Over time, young children will begin to include time order words like: at first, then, next, and at last! If students need support, the retelling cards are there to help them. Once the cards are in order, each student will retell the story to their partner. This is a great way to teach the comprehension skill of retelling the story. Remind children that yesterday they looked at the pictures in the book and talked about what they thought was happening in the story. He wrote the story and made the pictures. Mo Willems is also the illustrator and photographer. Together the whole class works to put the Knuffle Bunny sequencing picture cards in order. Say, The author of this book is Mo Willems. I’m pretty sure it is a parent’s right of passage to scour the whole world for a missing favorite toy Knuffle Bunny Sequencing Cards I love the expressions on the parents’ faces. It is only then that they all race back to the laundromat. Her father does not understand until they return to Trixie’s mother. Knuffle Bunny Making Predictionsįor this lesson, teachers will read until the point of the book where Trixie is trying to let her father that she has left Knuffle Bunny behind. Here are some of the comprehension questions and writing prompts we included in our English language arts lessons.

In addition to being a great mentor text for personal narratives for students’ own writing, Knuffle Bunny is a s great picture book for teaching reading comprehension skills.

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