After the read-through, we went over vocabulary. I used these vocabulary cards and did several different activities. We acted out some of the words. For example, the word hover is the perfect word to act out. I had a plastic dragonfly and had that dragonfly hover over different objects. We also looked back at the text and reread the sentences with some of the vocabulary words to get the context. I had him guess the meaning of some of the words, based on the context.
Before the 2nd read, I told him we were going to pay close attention to how the author wrote this text. I asked him to think about why there were different chunks or sections. After reading each section, we labeled what we thought the big idea or topic or that section was. We also talked about how the pictures help us understand the text.
