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The Three little pigs

This is level 2 book for beginner readers who can read short, simple sentences with help. A book by ‘Lady Bird’.

Parents can teach following concepts receptively and expressively through this book,

Comprehension

- Counting

- Vocabulary: early learners level -1: house, pigs, trees, door etc., level - 2 bricks, straw, sticks etc.

- Action verbs: building, blowing, ringing bell, hiding. Flying etc.

- ‘who’ questions ex: who is wearing blue dress, who has ‘bricks’.

- Prepositions: in, on, inside, outside etc.

- Emotions: angry, sad, scary

Expression

- Vocabulary level 1 and level 2 as mentioned above

- Action verbs: basic to advanced

- Prepositions

- Pronouns ex: me, I

- Adjectives ex: big, little

- Past tense ex: went

Parents have to read aloud book to their child with different intonation patterns and tone of voice for ex: I would mimic a muffled voice for the fox character, which will help the child to sustain attention. Once the book has been read a couple of times, parents can check by asking the child to point or to label different concepts according to the child’s language level from the story.

This book can also be used for articulation practice in a more natural way. The target sounds one can teach through this book are/h/, /f/, /ch/, /st/, /br/, /sp/, /bl/. Minimal pairs like huff and puff can also be taught. This book though unstructured yet natural way of learning will be motivating and fun way to practice target sounds.