Today we are reading

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Today we are reading
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Question 1

• You already know what I am going to ask you!
  Turn to your neighbor and whisper the question
  that I am going to ask. Take turns, please.
• Who is the author? (Hands up.)
• Peggy Rathmann
• Who is the illustrator? (Hands up.)
• Peggy Rathmann

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Question 2

• Silently look through the pictures in the story
  and raise your hand to tell me what you predict
  the story will be about.
• Miss Schroeders prediction
• The story will be about a police officer and his
  dog visiting a school to talk to the students.

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 255.

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Question 3

• There is a cause and effect relationship on page
  254 and page 255.
• What causes something else to happen?
• Officer Buckle was standing on a swivel chair and
  that caused him to fall.

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 256 and page
  257.

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Questions 4 and 5

• What are the students doing while Officer Buckle
  is trying to share his safety tips with them?
• They are not paying attention.
• Why might the students have not been paying
  attention to his speech?
• His speech might have been a little boring or
  maybe it was too long for the students to sit
  through.

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Question 6

• How would you feel if you were Officer Buckle?
  (Hands up, please.)

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Question 7

• What do you predict will happen to the students
  since they do not listen to Officer Buckles
  speech?

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 258 and page
  259.

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Question 8

• How do you think the students at school will feel
  about Gloria coming to visit them? (Hands up,
  please.)

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Question 9

• How would you feel if I brought Sammy to school?
  Do you think you would feel the same way that the
  students in this school feel? (Hands up,
  please.)

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Directions

• Raise your hand to read page 260 and 261.

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Question 10

• Look closely at the pictures. What is Gloria
  doing while Officer Buckle is giving his speech?

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 262 and page
  263.

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Questions 11 and 12

• How are the children reacting to Officer Buckles
  speech? (Hands up, please.)
• Why are they reacting like this?

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 264 and page
  265.

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 266 and page
  267.

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Question 13

• Why is Officer Buckle suddenly so popular?

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 268 and page
  269.

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Question 14

• Officer Buckles speech is still the same as it
  was before. What has changed that causes the
  students to jump to their feet to applaud and
  cheer?

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 271.

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Question 15

• A news crew had been at the school videotaping
  Officer Buckles speech. Later that night, he
  saw himself on the news. What do you think will
  happen?

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Directions

• Raise your hand to read page 272 and page 273.

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Question 16

• How do you think Officer Buckle feels now?
  (Hands up, please.)
• How would you feel? (Hands up, please.)

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Directions

• Please raise your hand to read page 274 and page
  275.

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Question 17

• What events caused the accident to happen?

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Directions

• Raise your hand to read page 276 and page 277.

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Question 18

• How do you think Officer Buckle and Gloria feel
  now? (Hands up, please.)
• Raise your hand to tell me what you thought of
  the story.

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The End
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Time to go

• If your birthday is in October, November, or
  December, get your book and line up at the door.
• If your birthday is in January, February, or
  March, get your book and line up at the door.
• If your birthday is in April, May, June, July,
  August, or September, get your book and line up
  at the door.