ABSTRACT
It was the first day of school with my sixteen 3- and 4-year-old students. I decided to start the day with a read-aloud of a picture book that I thought the children would find interesting and that had a patterned predictable text so they could read with me. The book I chose was Don and Audrey Wood’s (1993) Quick as a Cricket. I read, I’m as quick as a cricket, I’m as slow as a snail, I’m as small as an ant, I’m as large as a whale. I’m as sad as a basset, I’m as happy as a lark, I’m as nice as a bunny, I’m as mean as a shark. I’m as cold as a …
