The purpose of this reading is to bring together the information in the text and the illustrations. The discussion and activity options focus on analyzing the main idea, theme, character traits, setting and how all of the story elements fit together.

During this reading your child and you will read the story all the way through. Three ways that you can add fun and improve recall during this reading are:
~You may switch roles and become the listener and the questioner as your child “reads” (retells) the story to you. Assist your child in matching the retelling of the story to the illustration. Help your child pay attention to the details in the illustration to know when to turn the page.

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The focus of this reading is the text.There will be opportunities in this reading to connect the information in the illustrations to the information in the text. Making these connections will help to add meaning to the text. Remember the inferences you made during the FIRST READING about how the illustration might connect to infinity. Make connections to your inferences from the FIRST READING as you read the text.

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To allow the brain to focus on the information in the illustrations, this reading will look only at the illustrations and the information they provide to the reader. There are no right or wrong answers in this reading. If the pages are not numbered, page 1 is the first page of text.

*Before you begin to look at the illustrations, talk with your child about infinity. Find out what is already known about infinity. How does your child imagine infinity?
(infinity: endless space, time, or number)

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ABOUT THIS BOOK: INFINITY AND ME

By Kate Hosford

As I was searching for an informational text to reinforce some of the math concepts introduced in The Boy Who Loved Math, Infinity and Me popped up a couple of times. Reviewers loved this book about young Uma who wonders about the concept of infinity……….What is it? This creative and interesting book is the result of Kate Hosford’s children asking her about infinity. She couldn’t find an appropriate picture book to answer the question to the satisfaction of her four and six-year-old children.

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