It Is Not Summer Yet

Self-regulation

Genres of Literature

• Morning Meeting: If you use your morning meeting to build your classroom community, this mini graphic is a great discussion prompt.
• Whole Group: Once you’ve read and discussed the story together, have children act out the different parts.

• From the Storyworks archive: “Sticky Situation: When Is It My Turn?” (October/November 2022); “Sticky Situation: Teacher, Teacher!” (February 2024)
• Suggested books: Focused Ninja by Mary Nhin; Waiting Is Not Easy by Mo Willems; And Then Comes Summer by Tom Brenner

Video: What's In a Comic? (5 minutes)

• Explore how comics use pictures, thoughts, and dialogue to tell a story.

• Ask children if they can remember a time when they had a hard time focusing on schoolwork in class. What were they thinking about? What happened? Why is it important to focus in school?
• Read the comic with expression. Check children’s comprehension as you read each panel. Children can also turn and talk to discuss what each picture tells them about the story and the characters.
• Then give children a chance to practice reading with fluency and expression. Choose volunteers for reading each part aloud.
• Discuss the Talk It Out questions as a class. Ask children to share examples from their own lives as they make connections to how the characters are feeling.

• Skills: Self-management (15 minutes)

Skill: Writing (15 minutes)

• Tell students that when they are thinking about something else when they should be paying attention in class, it is called daydreaming. Usually people daydream when they are excited or have strong feelings about something. Give each student a blank piece of paper. Tell them to draw a thought bubble on the paper and fill it with words and pictures of things that they daydream about.