For the Third Reading, here are two suggestions to enhance the listener’s comprehension and help analyze the story:
~ Focus on the rhythm and the rhyming words. Leave out the second rhyming word, and have your child supply it. (Similar to the procedure suggested in the Second Reading.)
~ Dramatize the story. Create different voices for the different characters. Use different tones and volume. Remember to say the italicized lines differently.
DISCUSSION OPTIONS:
~ Talk with your child about riddles. Riddles require inferences to be formed. Make up riddles about the characters in the story to see if your child can determine which character is the answer to the riddle. (Example: I have a track and a stack. What am I? BULLDOZER) Share additional riddles that your child knows.
~ What other machinery might you add to the book?
~ Connect any of the special vocabulary used in the book to the new machinery that you are adding.
~ What happens at the construction site the next day after the trucks and machinery wake up?
~ Is the title a good one? Why?