We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

This book is a funny take on that student who comes to school still needing to learn some social skills.

Comprehension

• Use prior knowledge to connect with text.

• Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with text.

Accuracy

• Use the pictures . . . Do the words and pictures match?
• Cross checking

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—extinct, nervous, determined, especially, and appetite.