PB&J: Cat Problems, Sat. 2/19/22

The purpose of this PD is to unpack all the possible teaching points contained within one title. This book was chosen because it's loaded with ELA skills from the reading, writing, language, phonics, phonemic awareness and fluency standards AND selecting an ideal mentor sentence from the text for a grammar & conventions study.

In the two hours, we will walk through the book, page by page, discussing literacy elements, conventions used by the author and illustrator, vocabulary words & phrases, sentence structure, figurative language, plot, punctuation and more. We will identify the spots in the book that would be ideal stopping spots to demonstrate reading strategies that readers do.  We will also identify an ideal mentor sentence including parts of speech per word but phonics patterns for each word of that sentence.

As teachers, we all love picture books, and if you were a teacher at Jen Jones Elementary, you'd…