Through shared reading children learn about reading before they can read.
Every day one of the children asks, ‘Can you read The Spooky Old Tree?’ The book is The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree, written and illustrated in 1978 by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
Three little bears.
One with a light.
One with a stick.
One with a rope.
A spooky old tree
Do they dare go into that spooky old tree?
They do. Every day the children dare themselves to go into this book. Inside the story they, and the bears, come face to face with threat and menace – a twisty old stair, a crocodile, a moving wall, a spooky old hall, and a great sleeping bear. Along the way, one by one, they lose the rope, the stick and the light. And they find the shivers.
Three little bears…
without a light,
without a stick,
without a rope.
And all with the shivers!