At Home Suggestion

As I mentioned at Back-To-School, when reading your selections at home, try to locate together the exact point in a story where the middle begins. Make a game of it-see who can locate it first. Have your child retell the story using sentence frames such as, "In the beginning of the story...,The story takes place...The main character of the story is...In the middle of the story...The problem that the main character faces is...At the end of the story..."