- slide 1 of 3 Because Owl Babies has more text than your
typical shared reading choice the main focus of these lessons
will be on comprehension. Use this preschool lesson to teach
your students about story sequence. Share the story over several
days and your students will be joining in to read the repeated
lines in the book. Write each of the following events on a
separate sentence strip. - The owl babies find their mother
gone. - The owl babies wait for their mother. - The owl babies
move together onto Sarah's branch. - The mother owl returns to
the tree. - slide 2 of 3 Day One: Hold up the book Owl Babies
and ask the class what they think that it will be about. After
letting a few students predict, read the title author and
illustrator, pointing to each as you read. Turn the first page
and say "I see three smaller owls and big one. The small ones
must be the three owl babies and I think the big one is their
mother." Then turn to the next page and say, " It looks like the
babies are alone. I wonder where th