I asked students to pay close attention as I read and to show me a thumbs up if they heard me read a word we predicted would be in the story.
After reading the story. We went back to our chart and went through the word list again. We checked off the words we read in the book. We talked about the words we did not hear and why they were not in the text. We also talked about words we used that meant the same thing as different words the book used.
Then we filled in the blanks on this chart using words we predicted. I called students up to help me write the words. The whole group helped sound the words out.
Then they drew pictures of butterflies.
If time had permitted, I would have made butterflies with the students to display with our charts. Here is an example of butterflies I made with another class of mine.
This butterfly art is a crayon resist. Students drew and colored their butterflies with crayons and then washed over them with watered down tempera paint. Students can use stencils to trace butterflies on their paper and then color them in with their crayons and finish up with the wash.