The purpose of this reading is to share observations about poetry and to try your hand at writing poetry. The discussion and activity options focus on analyzing your favorite form of poetry or on poems in the book that you enjoyed the most.

During this reading your child and you will share the reading of the poems. Two 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 poem to you. Assist your child in matching the retelling of the poem to the photograph. Help your child pay attention to the details in the photograph.

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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 photographs to the information in the poetry. Making these connections will help to add meaning to the poetry. Make connections to the inferences you made about the photographs from the FIRST READING.

*Before you begin to read the poems, talk about poetry. It is a special form of writing that a writer (poet) uses when wanting to create a special feeling or an idea. It looks different than a story, having a special form of usually a few words on a line. Sometimes it has a rhythm, a rhyme, or both.

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To allow the brain to focus on the information in the photographs, this reading will look only at the photographs and the information they provide to the reader. There are no right or wrong answers in this reading. For this guide, we will be enjoying the section titled “the little ones”. The questions that are provided for this section will work for each of the nine sections of poetry.

General Questions for Each Section and Page: “The Little Ones” page 38
1. Look at the title page of the section. What do we see in the photograph that we can connect to the title of the section? (a little bee and a little ant)
2. For each photograph in the section:

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