Instructor Notes:

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Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 32-34.

By midmonth, we can invite the class to say the red, red, red, orange leaf pattern as a helper points to each piece and then try to “keep it going” beyond the day’s date. This helps children see how patterns help us make predictions of what may come next. We can ask, “What color leaf will we see tomorrow?” and “Why do you think this?”