Cool Cats Counting: Read Aloud Guide for Families

Anchor Standards for Reading: Craft and Structure: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.