for each vocabulary word (What is a place where we live and is made of land and water? Tell me about things you have seen on the Earth.), and comprehension questions to informally evaluate if children understood what happened in the book (What is the big thing that happened in the story? Why was Moonbear afraid of his shadow? What happened to the tree’s leaves in the fall?). To encourage children with limited language abilities to participate in the discussion, teachers could scaffold the discussion by reteaching words/concepts, modeling a response, extending children’s oral responses, rephrasing questions, asking additional questions,etc. A similar instructional sequence was implemented on the second reading of the book with a deeper discussion on the book and vocabulary (What is the difference between an apartment and a house? Why do we have apartments in cities?).