There is only one strategy taught per book, and the same strategies recur throughout and across grade levels. This ensures both a clear focus on and in-depth practice of the key strategies that are crucial to comprehension by successful readers. Predictions are made from observations of pictures and titles. One comprehension strategy, asking questions to understand the author, is modeled on page 13. The teacher reads, stops, and thinks aloud about the purpose the author had for writing this story.
Volunteers then share their own questions of the author.
Modeling is continued with other stories throughout the series. Building background knowledge is another comprehension strategy addressed on page 73. A list is made on the board. One of the facts is chosen and then modeled as to how it would be used in other contexts. Hearing and recording sounds in words-behaviors that indicate the child's ability to hear individual phonemes and then record them as letters.