The purpose of this reading is to bring everything together: the text, the vocabulary, 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 relate to each other.
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:
~You may switch roles and become the listener and the questioner as your child “reads”(retells) the story to you.
~Your child and you may alternate the pages you read to each other.
~You may dramatize the story. Take the roles and voices of the different characters. Tie in the vocabulary words: eerily and screeched. One of you may be the grouchy ladybug. The other can be all of the different characters.
DISCUSSION OPTIONS:
~Discuss what makes you grouchy.
~How do you think the grouchy ladybug will behave the next day?
~Talk about what is funny in the story.
ACTIVITY OPTIONS:
~Pick a couple of the characters in this story to study. Draw pictures of them and write stories about them on your story paper.
~Read The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Compare the caterpillar to the grouchy ladybug. How are the two characters alike, and how are they different? Use a very simple graphic organizer.