Tips and tools to engage a reader in learning with story book Sleep with Night

Use these pages to work on colors and numbers:

• What color is the last star?
  
• Which color star is your favorite?
  
• Vocabulary: Guided
  
• What does the word guided mean? 
  
• How do the stars help guide Hector and Ivan throughout their adventure? 
  

Here is when Glisto the gnome appears in the story. You will find Glisto hiding in several pages throughout the book. A reader will be able to create a story within a story by following Glisto the gnome's actions. When you see Glisto in the story  work on prepsitions. He is hidden behind, on top of, in between, inside, beside, and underneath several different objects throughout the book. 

• Where is the gnome located? 

Primary colors and secondary color learning on these pages:

• Vocabulary: Collide 
  
• What does the word collide mean?
  

Get the reader to engage by asking questions such as:

• How do you think the boys will get across?

Glisto is the only thing still imaginary on these two pages:

• What object could have been Glisto's home?
  
• What could have been the cave? The waterfall?
  

Several different flowers are drawn in the book. Some of the flowers are rare, such as the Flying Duck Orchid. They actually exist in nature and are beautiful! Hector and Ivan's imagination turn these flowers into characters in the beginning of the story. Can you find them?

-Sandra Solis-Cárdenas, MA, CCC-SLP