A Visit From Aunt Rose

As a part of our weekly theme "family fun", we read A Visit From Aunt Rose by Patsy Becvar. On the first day that we read the story, the students made a prediction about what would happen using on the pictures. After reading, they practiced retelling the story in our own words to a partner. On the second day that we read the book, we created a Flow Map together to retell the events of the story. The students then were divided into small groups and assigned part of the story. Using the class Flow Map to help them, the students wrote and illustrated about their part of the story. They then shared their sentences and pictures with the class and we put them in order of the events in the story.