PB&J: Stick and Stone: Best Friends Forever

The purpose of this PD is to unpack all the possible teaching points contained within one title. This book was chosen because it's loaded with ELA skills from the reading, writing, language, phonics, phonemic awareness and fluency standards AND selecting an ideal mentor sentence from the text for a grammar & conventions study.

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 & language skills that readers and writers do or use.  We will also identify an ideal mentor sentence including parts of speech, phonics patterns and phonological awareness skills from words and phrases in the book. 

As teachers, we all love picture books, and if…