Mo Willems is a genius! He has created a series that uses sight words and picture support to encourage beginning readers to read and to feel confident about their reading. They enjoy the story and the story actually makes sense! Each book is fifty-seven pages long but there are only a few words on a page (in a speech bubble). Even though the story lines are simple, a teacher can use these books to model predicting, inferring (many facial expressions that allow the reader to infer how the character is feeling), reading with expression, character traits/feelings, connections, asking questions etc.
The reader will laugh at Elephant and Piggie's antics in each book.
I cannot recommend this series enough!
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