Schema: dogs, problems with dogs, charts and graphs, letter writing, check the cover and think about having to dress up in clothes you might not like
What’s in your schema about the food pyramid?
Compare and Contrast: Compare Mr. Mutt’s food pyramid to the one suggested for people.
Compare and contrast the behavior of cats and dogs. Do [...]
Schema: best way to make a loose tooth come out rhyming text
Cause and Effect: Because she has no money to buy Papa a birthday gift, the effect is that she is trying to get her tooth to come out so the tooth fairy money can be used to buy the gift.
Predicting: What do you predict [...]
Schema: starting first grade, losing a tooth at school, being frightened by an older kid
Explain the dialogue bubbles: The pointing bubble means speaking, the bubble with a bubble trail means thinking.
Notice the 3 marks above the first grader’s head before she enters the classroom. The marks are showing that she is alarmed.
Inferring: The first grader [...]
Schema: Louisianna, bayou, folktale, baking soda
Colloquialisms: swaney, scoot over, sody sallyraytus, lickety-split, dillydally, Catawampus, hissy fit, soppin’ mad, nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs, skedaddled, flabbergasted, thumpin’ gizzards, patootie, gooder ‘n’ grits
After you say each of these colloquialisms as you are reading, have students repeat them right after you. It [...]
Schema: possums, playing possum, marsupials, folktales
Genre: Folktale; noodlehead story which is a silly, harmless story
Internal Consistency: Epossumondas just follows directions, but he doesn’t think about the cause and effect of his actions. Do you think Epossumondas would ever disobey his mama or his auntie?
Cause and Effect: Because Epossumondas doesn’t think and just follows his latest [...]
Schema: caterpillars, cocoons, butterflies
Predicting: Students may repeat the line “but he was still hungry” along with you; predict the name of the next day in the story, predict how many things he will eat the next day. Predict what the butterfly will do to keep the life cycle going. I am predicting that it will [...]
Schema: chickens, fried chicken, pet chickens; Mother Fox gives some instructions or directions to the baby foxes. What usually happens when you don’t follow directions?
Predicting: What do you predict will happen when Rag leaves the den?
Cause and effect: Because the foxes do not count themselves, the effect is that they think one of them is [...]
Schema: small, wanting to be big, not being about to ride certain rides at amusement parks
Letter Sounds: lots of “t” words
Inference: Teenie infers that what is in the small box will make her grow.
Text-to-text connection: Jack and the Bean Stalk
What do you infer that the plant is doing to get all of the stuff in [...]
Schema: dogs, what they like, text-to-text connect with other Martha books
Inference: What do you infer that the man in the green suit feels about dogs? maybe that dogs are wild creatures that never want to mind
Predicting: What do you predict the dog owners will think after hearing the man’s speech? that they will want him [...]
Schema: getting hair cut, Great Depression, segregation
Season: illustration depict Fall
Point of View: Sarah Jean tells the story from her POV.
Characterization: Uncle Jed: He visualized his dream of owning a barbershop. He knew exactly what it would look like in his mind. He worked very hard and never gave up.
Drawing Conclusions: We can draw the conclusion [...]
