In K1AC, we love the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. Students often ask for the story to be re-read and it is always a popular choice for independent reading. 

Last week Lea selected this book to read to her Grade 2 buddies after they shared some of their writing with her. The video below demonstrates Lea's development as an emergent reader as she practices "memorized reading" using her memory of the story, beginning concept of word and print, and the illustrations as prompts. 

Lea rolled a dot cube to find the number that she would be working with. She counted the dots and then built a tower with the same number of cubes. Here is her work: