Written by Jennifer Ward
Illustrated by Kenneth J. Spengler
Over in the Garden is a song-based book that feature a rhyming texts and tells the adventures of all sorts of bugs in the garden.
Mini-Lesson: Sequencing
Each page in this book features a different insect and what that insect does in the garden. The class can create a flow chart or sequence chart featuring the insects they find on each page. Picture cards could also be created for a student center, allowing students to order the story and then write about what happened on each page.
Mini-Lesson: Fluency and Expression
This book is a wonderful book to model reading with a great deal of fluency and expression. It not only contains rhymes, but also contains several exclamatory sentences that add to the pattern of the text.
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