We spent several weeks comparing two Jan Brett stories, Trouble with Trolls and Christmas Trolls. The second graders did a fabulous job of identifying character traits for the main character Treva and the Trolls. They were able to pick a character traits and provide evidence from the story to support that trait. They are becoming great writers! We also did a reading comprehension activity to see how well we could answer questions about our reading. The kids had to find the questions around the room and answer them on a recording sheet. An emphasis was placed on answering the questions with complete sentences. We talked about using part of the question while writing our answers.