1. Watch the Birdhouse (Part 2) video with your readers
2. Use the activity guide to make inferences and prompt elaboration

1. Model retelling the set-up of the story and the first event: Say
   One day, Kim decides to make a birdhouse in her workshop. First, she gets some wood, a hammer, and nails. She starts to put the birdhouse together.
2. Model a think-aloud to Prompt elaboration: Say
   I wonder what time of year it is when Kim decides to make the birdhouse. 
3. Prompt elaboration with the following questions: Ask
   Let’s look for clues in how Kim is dressed and peek outside through the window.
   What are the clues about the time of the year?
   (It looks like Spring because all the leaves are out and Kim is wearing short sleeves. Also that is when birds have their babies. So it must be Spring.)

Connect readers to their background knowledge about birds: 

1. Say
   I know in stories characters have a reason for the things they do. Help me think of a reason why Kim wants to make a birdhouse. 
2. Ask
   Why do you think Kim wants to make a birdhouse?
   (Because she knows the birds will need shelter or a place to make a nest to lay their eggs)
3. Say
   We can infer that Kim likes birds and wants them to have a safe place to live.

Provide a model to incorporate the new ideas generated in response to the prompts: Say

One spring day, Kim decides to make a birdhouse because she cares about birds. She wants to provide a shelter for them to lay their eggs so the babies will hatch safely.

Continue to Generate new ideas about details of the story. (Allow time for readers to respond.) Tell about why Kim is doing what she is doing: Ask

Why do you think she chose to paint the birdhouse yellow?
(Maybe she likes the color yellow or she thinks birds will see the house because it is a bright or vivid color.)

Continue to Generate new ideas about details of the story. (Allow time for readers to respond.) Tell about what is happening in the story and Infer why: 

1. Ask
   What do you think happens after Kim hangs up the birdhouse?
   Does a bird come right away or does she have to wait?
2. Say
   I wonder how Kim feels as she hangs up the birdhouse. 
3. Model an inference: Say
   Kim seems smiling and happy. So I can infer that she is happy and maybe feels proud because she made the birdhouse. 
4. Generate an elaboration: Say
   I think to make the story more interesting, maybe the bird doesn’t come right away. I think she will have to wait and wait. How would she feel? I want the story to have a little suspense.
   (Kim may feel disappointed when no bird comes to the birdhouse.)

Continue to Generate new ideas about details of the story resolution. (Allow time for readers to respond.) Tell about what is happening at the end of the story: 

1. Say
   Now let’s look at the last picture and think about the end of the story. Let’s think of more details to add. 
2. Ask
   How did Kim know that the birds finally came?
   What did she hear?
   What did she see?
3. Generate an elaboration: Say
   Then one morning Kim heard, “Tweet, tweet “ outside her window.

Model an elaborated retell: Say

Now I will put together all our new ideas and tell our story. 

• One spring day a girl named Kim decides to make a birdhouse in her workshop because she wants to make a safe place for birds to build a nest. First, she gets some wood, nails, and a hammer, and she builds a birdhouse. 
• Next, Kim decides to paint the birdhouse yellow so birds can find the house easily.
• Then, Kim hangs the birdhouse on the branch of a tree. Kim feels proud that the birdhouse is ready. She hopes that a bird will come soon. She waits and waits but no bird comes. So Kim feels disappointed.
• Last, one sunny morning, Kim hears, “Tweet, Tweet.” She runs to her window and looks out. Kim sees a red cardinal sitting on the perch outside the birdhouse. The red bird is feeding its baby. Kim is so happy. She is thrilled.