Look at the front cover. What do you see? What do you notice? What do you think this text is going to be about?

Pause on page 8. What does being kind mean to you? What are some ways you can be kind? Do you have any predictions about what our main character is going to do for Tanisha?

After page 3, ask students to infer how Tanisha is feeling after spilling her grape juice.

Why do you think Tanisha ran into the hall?

After reading, discuss the main idea for this story.

What do you think the author wants us to learn from this book? Ask students to show examples from the text that support their reasoning.

Have students go back and reread pages 4 and 5. Model for students how to pause at punctuation and change their tone to match the dialogue. Have students read the page in their head and then out loud. Reading more than once will allow students to focus on the appropriate expression and tone and worry less about decoding the text.