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Franklin's secret club

Cover of Franklin's secret club

by Paulette Bourgeois
illustrated by Brenda Clark

🧸 Picture Book Pals 🌱 Early Readers 📚 Picture Book⏱ 8 min read-along
Ages
3–7 (suggested)
Reading level
Pre-K
Pages
32
Published
1998
Publisher
Kids Can Press
ISBN
9780613180924
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📖 About the Book

Franklin forms a secret club with some of his friends, not realizing that his other friends might feel left out, and when Beaver starts her own club he discovers what it feels like to be excluded.

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Illustrated: Brenda Clark

🧠 Read Together

Tips for 🧸 Picture Book Pals (ages 3–5). Reading together for just 15 minutes a day builds vocabulary, focus and a lifelong love of stories.

  • Look at the cover together and ask: “What do you think this story is about?”
  • Turn on captions (CC) so your child sees the words while hearing them.
  • Pause and ask “What do you think will happen next?” There are no wrong answers!
  • Hunt for letters: can your child spot the first letter of their name on screen?
  • Ask your child to retell the story in three parts: beginning, middle, end.
  • Draw a favorite picture from the story and label it together.
  • Can you find your favorite picture?
  • What sounds did you hear in the story?
  • What colors did you see?

🔤 Word Explorer

Treasure words hiding in this book. Pause the video when you hear one and talk about what it means!

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