The Story of the Women - Level 2 - Emerging Readers - Story reading guide

Jul 17, 2026

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Big Book for early readers featuring “The Story of the Women” at Level 2 (Book 2B), designed for children learning to enjoy storybooks and understand how words and pictures work together. The guide explains how big-book reading supports vocabulary growth, word prediction, main-idea awareness, and sequencing in stories. Includes steps for first, second, and third readings and practical activities such as matching, acting, reading together, and reading alone, followed by the story’s opening situation.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages20

Reading Time31 min

How to use this Big Book

First reading session

Second reading session

Third reading session

Activities you can do with the Big Book

Story start

The Story of the Women Level 2: Book 2B English The Story of the Women English Copyright © 2025, SIL Global [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. Translated into English by: Gasyodo Mitala Erinayo This book is an adaptation of the original , OLugero lwa Bakali, Copyright © 2024, SIL Uganda. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Original book written by: Okoi Chrizonto Illustrators: Sanja Akisoferi and Mulekwa Fred Level 2: Emerging Readers The original Gwere book “OLugero lwa Bakali” was written during writers’ workshops held in Budaka, Butebo, Kibuku and Pallisa Districts in April 2023 as part of the Let’s Read Together Project. Technical support was provided by SIL Uganda. How to use this Big Book This Big Book is designed to encourage children to enjoy reading and to like storybooks. Children will understand that books have words and pictures, which both have a meaning. Reading Big Books helps the children to develop their vocabulary. The children will also practice the skill of word prediction. The children will learn that every book has a main idea and that things happen in a sequence (order) in a story. When you read the book for the first time: 1. Show the cover of the book and discuss the picture with the children. 2. Read the title, while moving a finger under each word. 3. Turn to the first page and discuss the picture. 4. Read the text fluently, accurately and with expression. 5. Ask the children what they think they will see on the next page. 6. Read every page and discuss the pictures. 7. At the end of the book, ask the children what they liked about the book or story. When you read the book for the second time: 1. Show everyone the book. Read the title while pointing to the words. 2. Read the story, following the words with a pointer or your finger. 3. Encourage the children to read with you if they know some words. In the third reading session: 1. Show everyone the book. Encourage the children to read the title. 2. Read the story, following the words with a pointer or your finger. 3. Invite the children to read with you if they know some words. 4. Do an activity with the book. Activities you can do with the Big Book: Matching: Write a word from the story on a paper or blackboard. Let the children match the word to the word in the Big Book. They can raise their hands or clap when they see the word. Acting: Invite some children to act a skit to dramatize the story, while others help the teacher read it. Reading together: Ask one group of children to read one page aloud together, then another group can read another page and so on. Reading alone: Invite children to come and read to the group using the pointer. One day, three women went on a journey. Each woman had two children.

FAQs

What reading skills does the Big Book help children build?

It supports vocabulary growth, word prediction, understanding the main idea, and recognizing that story events happen in sequence.

What activities can teachers or children do with the Big Book?

Common activities include matching words from the story, acting out a skit, reading together in groups, and letting children read alone using a pointer.

How should the first reading session be conducted?

Show and discuss the cover picture, read the title with a finger under each word, discuss the first page image, then read fluently with expression and ask what children expect on the next page and about the pictures on each page.

Jul 17, 2026

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