Planting the Wild Garden By Kathryn O. Gailbraith

In Planting the Wild Garden, readers discover that farmers and gardeners play a very small part in creating the beauty around us. Nature is always at work in mysterious and wonderful ways. Soft illustrations and lyrical text, including onomatopoeia, will make this book a treasure to pour over again and again.

Possible Strategy Instruction:

• C: Use prior knowledge to connect with text
• C: Ask questions throughout the reading process
• C: Recognize and explain cause and effect relationships

• A: Use the pictures...Do the words and pictures match?

• F: Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling

• E: Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing