Schema: favorite foods Poetry and Figurative language: Haiku: created by the Japanese as a form of poetry: The most common form for Haiku is three short lines: The first line usually contains five (5) syllables. The second line seven (7) syllables. The third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn’t rhyme. Figurative language creates a [...]
Schema: President’s children, pop stars in the news, publicity Historical Fiction: polio, Civil War, Rough Riders, Spanish American War 1898 Figurative Language: “eating up the world” Text-to-self connection: having a pet monkey, many students would enjoy having one Text-to-text connection: Curious George, Madeline books about little girls in boarding school Compare and Contrast: In 1905 [...]
Schema: bird’s nests, wild birds Text-to-text connection with Pale Male Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman Cause and Effect: Because a man stole the other baby peregrine falcons, the effect is that Sam rescues Oksi and takes her to his forest home. Compare and Contrast the nest home on the bridge with [...]
Schema: parks, apartments, birds, nests Text-to-text connection with Frightful’s Daughter by Jean Craighead George; in both books the birds did things their own way which was different from birds of their species Cause and Effect: Because Pale Male built his nest above the Fifth Ave. apartments, the effect was that the people who lived in [...]
Schema: taking a dance class, recitals, stage fright, Easter eggs, jellybeans Inferring: When the girls realized their song was about a bug, they inferred that they would have to dress like bugs for their recital. When Emily’s mother asked her if a visit to Petunia’s would make her feel better, and then we read that [...]
Schema: Canada, migration, seasons, teamwork, cooperation, things about geese, things about Texas Predicting: Look at the illustrations of Lucy peeping at the turtle, swimming with her head under the water, and back floating. It says that “when the others went east, Lucy always went west.” Do you predict that Lucy will stay with the others [...]
Schema: story of The Little Red Hen; have students retell it calling on several and having them pick up where the last student left off Text-to-text connection: The Little Red Hen Point of View: The story is told from the red hen’s point of view. How does the mother hen’s POV change when her chick [...]
Translated from Japanese Schema: Following directions, why it is important Drawing Conclusions: The cats draw the conclusion that it is ok for them to pick a flower. What is the flaw in their reasoning? Predicting: What do you predict the cats will do when they come to the tree? The bag? Cause and Effect: Because [...]
Schema: What can tall people do? What’s in your schema about being tall? Characterization: List the traits of Kylie Bell using a bubble map or other graphic organizer: brave, smart, big at hear, positive attitude, great imagination, not “a moper, a pouter, or a whiner,” proud, athletic, acrobatic, polite, fast, forgiving, compassionate Cause and Effect: [...]
Schema: giving gifts, making others happy, does it require magic, does it always require money Historical fiction: Before we had so many automatic ways of doing things, people did work with their hands. Cooperage: a barrel-maker business Drawing Conclusions: Vincent drew the conclusion that magic had stacked his fruit for him. Philip draws the conclusion [...]
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