A Note from Robert Munsch A long long LONG time ago when I was in first grade my class had 60 kids in it The teacher didn’t read any books and neither did the kids It was not fun Well here is a book that is fun to read for both you and your grown-ups READERS RULE 1
Before Reading High-Frequency Words Practice reading these high-frequency words in the story again not these with Meet the Characters Get to know the characters from the story by looking at the pictures and names below Andrew Andrew’s father Andrew’s mother Grandma 2
All Capital Letters You might notice in the story that sometimes when Andrew speaks his words are written in all capital letters Why do you think these words would be written in only capital letters Go through the story and read all the lines letters Do that are written you notice something about the way these words should be read in all capital Noun or Not When a word is a person place or thing it is a noun All the characters in the story are nouns because they are all people Take a look at the words below and decide if they are a noun or not snowsuit car bush behind bathroom yell 3
