Three Children Literature Books (5)

The Twelve Dancing Princessess by Ruth Sanderson. The book is about a king who had twelve daughters who he would lock up their door when going to sleep. Every morning he would go open up the door only to see that there shoes were being worn out as if they were dancing. The king had asked if anyone knew their secret about the shoes or what was going on, he would let that person marry one of them of any of their choice. The secret came about that the princesses had a secret door on the floor to get out and they would do dance the night away. A soldier was hired to find out what was going on and he finally revealed their secret and the soldier got to marry the eldest princess.
I would have a small ball in the classroom and have the student's dress up as if they were going to a ball and have the students dance together with dancing partners with the music of children's music. Here they are able to move around taking step by step dancing moves.

Shared Reading

Shared reading is an instructional approach in education, during which the teacher explicitly teaches the strategies and skills of proficient readers. The first purpose is to provide the children with an enjoyable experience. Introduce them to a variety of authors, illustrators and types of texts to entice them to become a reader. The second is equally as important purpose is to teach children the reading process and teach them how to be readers and writers themselves. When selecting texts for reading, teachers look for text that is appropriate for the reading level of the students, that is also cross-curricular and relevant in its nature. The text should be an appropriate length for study and be adequate to readers to understand what it means.
The teacher reads the text aloud, states a focus, and then re-reads the text. When asking questions specific to the focus of choice they may ask students to join them.