There are no page numbers in the story, so I have numbered them starting with the first page of the text after the title page.

• P. 1, ask students where they think the other frog is?
• P. 3, confirm and adjust predictions, and make a new prediction about why the other two frogs were never impressed.
• P. 27, ask students what they think the most extraordinary creature is?
• P. 30, confirm and adjust predictions, and ask children why the frogs were laughing. Also ask if they think the frogs had ever seen a real chicken or alligator before?

• P. 9, when Marilyn says the “pebble” is a chicken egg, ask students if they know any other animals that come from eggs.
• P. 10, ask the children what animal has hatched from the egg and to explain their answer.

• Ask the children to compare and contrast an alligator and a chicken.

P. 3, Use the character’s voice while reading to students. Read with expression and follow the punctuation to sound excited as Jessica says, “Look what I found. Isn’t it extraordinary?”

P. 17, Jessica voice may sound startled and dazed as she is saved from the water, “I’m all right. I got tangled in the weeds, but the chicken saved me.”

P. 23, the bird is says excitedly, “Oh, there you are! Your mother has been looking for you! Come! I’ll take you to her.”

P. 28, the mother alligator voice sounds so happy after seeing her baby, “Come here, my sweet little alligator.”

• P. 8, model how these two sentences are to be read according to their end marks: “How do you know it’s a chicken egg?”and ”There are some things you just know.”
• P. 10, the alligator asks, “Where is the water?” and on page 13, ”They had a wonderful time together and played from sunup to sundown.

Examples of interesting words in the story: extraordinary (title), astonished (pg. 8), commotion (pg. 15), inseparable (pg. 18)