PB&J All Access Bundle: 2021-2022 Part 1

The purpose of this PD is to unpack all the possible teaching points contained within one title. In the two hours, we will walk through the book, page by page, discussing literacy elements, conventions used by the author and illustrator, vocabulary words & phrases, sentence structure, figurative language, plot, punctuation and more. We will identify the spots in the book that would be ideal stopping spots to demonstrate reading strategies that readers do.  We will also identify an ideal mentor sentence including parts of speech per word but phonics patterns for each word of that sentence.

I would not and I do not suggest you teach all the teaching points in one title in one day/week (I will discuss more on this in the PD). The intent is to read the picture book aloud to your students first before using it as a mentor text. Using the book as a mentor…