Quiet Please, Owen McPhee! by Patrice Barton

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.