Louanne Pig In The Mysterious Valentine Summary

For my read aloud I read Louanne Pig in the Mysterious Valentine by Nancy Carlson to Tina Gwyn’s kindergarten class. This book is about a pig named Louanne who receives a valentine in her mailbox but, it is addressed from a secret admirer. She only has one clue about who sent it, she knows the person has a green pen because that is the color of the signature on the valentine. Louanne is determined to find out who sent it, so she spends her day snooping around hoping to find someone who owns a green pen. Eventually she goes to their town store and gets another hint; the person who bought it has a curly tail. In the end Louanne does not figure out who sent it but, if the students pay close attention to the pictures they will notice her dad has a green pen in his pocket and has a curly tail!
Before I introduced the book, I started by asking them a couple questions. The first question I asked was if they knew when Valentine’s Day was. I received lots of answers like, “Tuesday”, “July”, “next week”, and finally I called on someone who said
However, I did take a class last semester, and I was required to conduct a read aloud to my classmates. This was a great way to practice how to do a read aloud correctly, so I really benefited from this because I had already practiced the correct way to do a read aloud. In this class we learned stuff like how to properly hold the book, when it is appropriate to ask questions and how to effectively switch between eye contact with the kids and reading the book without messing up. These are all small things but they have a big impact when preforming a read aloud. During my read aloud with Tina Gwyn’s class I was able to do those things well, as well as the more obvious things like: volume, pitch and pace. I was a little worried about some of these things, but overall I think I ended up doing