Penguin Young Readers This book is perfect for an Emergent Reader who: can read in a left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression; can recognize some beginning and ending letter sounds; can use picture clues to help tell the story; and can understand the basic plot and sequence of simple stories. Here are some activities you can do during and after reading this book: Picture Clues: Use the pictures in this book to tell the story. Have the child go through the book, retelling the story by just looking at the pictures. Make Predictions: At the end of this story, Dick, Jane, and Sally see people riding in a yellow bus, in a red-and-yellow plane, and in a blue boat. Where do you think these people are going? Work with the child to write a paragraph that explains where you might go in a bus, where you might go in a plane, and where you might go in a boat.