Your child can 'read' A Pocket for Corduroy to another family member by explaining what is happening in each picture.

Read this book at least three times, following the instructions above.

You may wish to discuss the prompts shown below.

If he or she needs help in answering a question, ask that question again the next time you read the book. For example, ask: What is this place called? (It is a laundromat.) What are Lisa and her mother carrying? (They are carrying bags with their dirty clothes.) Use your finger to point to what you are asking about.

Give prompts about objects or activities in the pictures.

For example, ask: What is happening in this picture? What does Corduroy do? Do less reading of the words to the story each time you read, leaving more and more of the 'reading' or retelling to the child. Continue to ask these questions when you reread the book, until he or she knows the answers.

After you have finished reading, ask your child the recall questions below.

After reading the story, ask: Do you have a pocket in what you are wearing? What do you put in your pocket?.

Read the story, moving your finger under the words as you read.

Ask: What do you call these? (They are overalls.) Turn the page and point to the picture on the title page.Have your child repeat the title as you point to each word. Read the title of the book on the cover, pointing to each word as you say it.The next day Lisa returns, takes him home, and makes him a pocket. He gets lost and spends the night in the laundromat. Corduroy notices he doesn't have a pocket and goes in search of one.

Corduroy sees Lisa searching through her pockets before putting clothes in the washer. Lisa and her mother go to the laundromat. Of 2 A Pocket for Corduroy by Don Freeman