Gerald and Piggie Teach Empathy and Kindness...While Building Confidence
Help me give my students Elephant and Piggie book sets. Our emergent readers LOVE these books, and we would like to add some sets to our school's shared leveled book room, to use for guided reading!
My students inspire and surprise me all of the time! I have the privilege of working with small groups of learners who work hard, collaborate, and continue to build their reading stamina and language skills every day. We live in a small mountain community in Northern California. My first through fifth-grade students, many of whom are English Learners, need additional support with reading, writing, and language development. They thrive in learning environments where they feel safe taking risks; where they perceive reading and writing as positive and attainable; and where they know their voices will be heard and honored by those around them.
Our students LOVE finding engaging books that they can read themselves, and the Elephant and Piggie series is a wonderful gateway to more complex texts.
If students feel successful reading simple, yet engaging texts, they will continue to tackle books that are more challenging because they have the confidence and motivation to do so!
My Project
We have many young readers, including dual-language learners, who love looking at pictures, but are not quite ready to access longer and more complex texts. Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie texts are a wonderful gateway to longer books for young readers. They include many sight words that young children are working to acquire, coupled with predictable text and pictures that support the story.
Students in TK-5th grade love Elephant and Piggie books, and they are nearly always checked out of our school library, and teacher's classroom libraries; these will be a welcome addition to our school's leveled book room!
Young readers who begin with comic book and graphic novel formats, are much more willing to then move toward longer texts and novels. We want to do whatever we can to build the confidence in our young readers, especially those who are already struggling and sometimes reluctant to pick up a book. These texts will help to build their confidence, and engage them in the act of reading.
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