Each week we focus our guided reading on a big book and explore many aspects of the story
and text features to develop our print concepts. We look for our tricky words, punctuation
markers (eg. commas, full-stops, quotation, exclamation and question marks) and clues from
the pictures and text to help us read and comprehend the story. We look at strategies such
as sounding out and chunking to help us work out unfamiliar words, and practise reading
with fluency and expression.

“Hullabaloo at the Zoo” by author Jill Eggleton was great fun to read. The book has
fantastic illustrations and uses lovely descriptive words that entertain young readers
and helps them connect with the characters. We loved using different voices when we
were reading the speaking parts.