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Blue - The book wasn't all that engaging but students understood what happened in the story. - Students were able to explain what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. I did use prompting to guide them through the discussion.

Orange - Students made great predictions before reading the story. - This book wasn't as engaging for this top group. - They had no problem identifying beginning, middle, and end of the story. - They were also able to do the sentence building activity on their own.

Red - The book was a bit easy but I wanted to focus more on comprehension with this group. - We read the story twice since it was a short read. - The mini-book was simple enough for students to complete without much assistance. - It did take some time in the beginning to explain what they had to do though.