Use this strategy to help student connect to the text, predict what will happen, and confirm predictions.

• Students can predict what animal will crawl into the mitten next.
• Student can predict how the other animals might react when the next animal wants to join them in the mitten.
• Students can predict whether or not the mitten will hold each animal.
• Students can predict if Nicki will find his mitten again.

Use this strategy to help students visualize the story in their heads as it is read.

As the story is read, students can visualize each woodland animal climbing into the mitten, thinking about how the mitten would look and how the animals would look squeezed inside the mitten.

Use this strategy to help student recognize there is an order to which the story is told and that the story should be retold in sequential order.

Students can retell the story from the beginning and remember the order in which the animals climbed into the mitten.

Use this strategy to help students recognize punctuation within text and adjust the way they read based on that punctuation.

Students can head commas in text to increase fluency as they read.

Use this strategy to help students notice there are interesting words within a text and draw their attention to them.

Suggested words to draw attention to include: tunneling, discovered, wiggled, kickers, scuffling, attracted, commotion, grumbled, glinty, talons, diggers, investigate, muzzle, lumbered, plumped, swelled, buldged, scattered, and silhouetted.