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Each Book Conversation Card™
provides specific strategies, prompts
and guidance to effectively engage
two-year-old children during the
read-aloud experience and to extend
their language andFlying
literacy
development.
High
haring With Twos
Playing Ball
te
• Add hand and body movements to
animate the song as you sing. Encourage
the children to perform the actions with
you.
en’s
He is
any
• Emphasize the rhyming word pairs
ball /hall and do /you.
he
ffer
otos,
ple.
ike
en
ke.
nd
• After reading, invite the children to
experiment with rolling a variety of
balls. Compare the balls as the children
play: “Wow, that is a big beach ball! Is it
easy to roll? What about this little table
tennis ball? How can you roll this one?”
• After reading, invite the children to
join you in the activity on Intentional
Teaching Card P18, “Roll It to Me!”
• Invite the children to point out familiar
items in the illustrations. Expand on
their observations by adding more
details: “Yes, there is a yellow butterfly
flying by the tree.”
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Sharing With Families
Encourage families to do the following:
• Act out the story “Flying High” with
their children by using their children’s
names in the story and following the
movements.
• Play a game of “Roll the Ball” with their
children after reading “Playing Ball.”
• Point out pairs of objects in the
illustrations: “I see two blue birds, two
pink shoes, and two blocks. And there
are one, two of us reading the story
together!”
• Emphasize key words in the story such
as up, down, whee, and again, and
encourage the children to repeat these
words.
Sharing With Families
Guidance for My
Sharing
With Twos
Puppy
Find It
• Talk with their children about things
they like, such as special people or toys
after reading, “What I Like.” If possible,
invite families to bring in pictures of the
special people in their children’s lives to
share when reading the poem.
• Offer the children a small stuffed puppy
to hold as you read.
• Say, “What do
you see
in this picture?
What
I Like
Playing Ball
Flying High
Encourage families to do the following:
Yes, there is •a Invite
banana.
othertofoods
• Encourage the
children
point
the
theWhat
children
hold a favorite
• Add
hand to
and
bodytomovements
to
• Invite the children to point out familiar
• Act out the story “Flying High” with
• Play a game of “Roll the Ball” with their
do you see?” item as you share the story.
puppy on the animate
page as you
word
the read
song the
as you
sing. Encourage
items in the illustrations. Expand on
their children by using their children’s
children after reading “Playing Ball.”
puppy.
the children to perform the actions with
their observations by adding more
names in the story and following the
• Say, “Let’s look
at the picture.
There to name
• Encourage
the children
you.
details: “Yes, there is a yellow butterfly
movements.
are one, two, three
things
to recognize
find.”
anything
they
in the• Point to each illustration and ask,
flying by the tree.”
Encourage theillustrations.
children to name
theon the children’s
“What is the• puppy
doing?”
Expand
Emphasize
the rhyming word pairs
objects on theobservations:
“Find It” page.
“Yes, there is a baby.
Hethe
is children
ball /hall
• Point out pairs of objects in the
• Offer
a hugand
at do
the/you.
end of
smiling at his mommy. Do you the
see any
illustrations: “I see two blue birds, two
story. • After reading, invite the children to
more babies in the pictures?”
pink shoes, and two blocks. And there
experiment
with
rolling
a
variety
of
• Invite the children to imitate the actions
are one, two of us reading the story
• Replace Mama in the last line ofofthe
balls.
Compare
the
balls
as
the
children
the puppy.
together!”
story with the child’s name, and offer
play: “Wow, that is a big beach ball! Is it
him a hug after you read.
easy to roll? What about this little table
•
Emphasize
key LLC.
words
in the story such
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Strategies,
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as up, down, whee, and again, and
tennis ball? How can you roll this one?”
Cover image and Highlights Hello copyright © 2015 Highlights for Children, Inc.,
• Show the children their family photos,
encourage the children to repeat these
and ask them to name familiar people.
• After reading, invite the children to Columbus, Ohio. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
words.
join you in the activity on Intentional
• After reading, ask, “What do you like
Teaching Card P18, “Roll It to Me!”
to play with?” and invite the children
My Puppy
to choose items in the room they like.
• Offer the children a small stuffed puppy
Find
It
Encourage the children to name and
to hold as you read.
• Say, “What do you see in this picture?
talk about the items they choose.
Yes, there is a banana. What other foods • Encourage the children to point to the
do you see?”
puppy on the page as you read the word
puppy.
• Say, “Let’s look at the picture. There
are one, two, three things to find.”
• Point to each illustration and ask,
Encourage the children to name the
“What is the puppy doing?”
objects on the “Find It” page.
• Offer the children a hug at the end of
the story.
™
• Invite the children to imitate the actions
of the puppy.
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Cover image and Highlights Hello™ copyright © 2015 Highlights for Children, Inc.,
Columbus, Ohio. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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