Saturday, May 9, 2015

Huggapotamus by Steve Metzger illustrated by Gabriele Antonini

Albert, a young hippo, comes from a loving home where his parents bestow him with lots of hugs and love.  Since he loves his friends, he ventures out one day to share hugs.  A couple of problems-he is a hippo so he is huge and rough plus his timing is not the best.  As a result, his friends do not want to play with him.
A great book to read with your child about "thinking before acting."

This book is recommended on the Daily CAFE website.
Strategies they suggest utilizing with this book: parts of a story, cause/effect, chunking letters (ing), using punctuation to help read with expression, read text as author would say it, tune into interesting words

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