Mother Goose Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

In Mother Goose Bruce, fun text and delightful illustrations by Ryan Higgins serve as a backdrop to teach and reinforce many reading strategies. 

Possible strategy instruction:

• C: Check for understanding. 
• C: Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm
• C: Make a picture or mental image.
• C: Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting problem/resolution, theme).

• A: Use the pictures for a clue.
• A: Try a different letter sound. (migration, tacky, fancy, recipes, local)
• A: Chunk the letters and sounds together (unwelcome, internet, ingredients). 

• F: Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text.
• F: Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.).

• E: Tune in to interesting words and use new words in speaking and writing (drizzled, organic, annoying, pesky, stern, stubborn).