Kari Hammerschmitt

By Franklyn M. Brantley, illustrated by Arthur Dorros

Copyright 1961

ISBN 978-0-06-445050-8

This read aloud video was made by Mary Ellen Ariotti, a certified Kindergarten teacher in Pinellas County, FL. She carries endorsements in Reading as well as ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Most of her book videos include Higher Order Thinking Questions (HOT Questions) for students to think about and pauses for them to answer back with on topics such as Vocabulary, Character, Setting, Events, Sequencing, Problem / Solution, Character Feelings, Similarities and Differences among books by the same author (author studies), or Early Reading Strategies such as Get Your Mouth Ready, Look at the Picture, Look for Chunks You Know (Chunk it!) Slide through the Word, What Makes Sense?, and Skip over it/ Go Back and Reread. Sight Words are focused upon in Shared Reading or Word Work videos, with models students can use to visualize word building skills. She has a playlist of books that are