Quiet Please, Owen McPhee! by Patrice Barton
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If you have a child or student who has lots of words, you'll appreciate the charming and chatty Owen McPhee.
Comprehension
- Infer and support with evidence (especially when reading the pictures).
- Check for understanding.
- Make a picture or mental image.
- Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm.
Accuracy
- Flip the sound (laryngitis, flip from a hard g to a soft g).
- Cross checking . . . Does it look right, sound right, and make sense?
Fluency
- Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody.
- Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling.
Expand Vocabulary
- Tune in to interesting words and use them in speaking and writing—loyal, erupting, revenge, laryngitis, and determined.
