Schema: teachers, field trips Inference: Mrs. Millie uses animal words that rhyme in place of the real word. Ask the students to infer what Mrs. Millie really means before you read what her students say when they correct her. Mental Images: Make a mental image of the things Mrs. Millie says. The illustrations will help [...]
Schema: dancing, stories about mice Text-to-Self connections: More than anything else…what do you love? Inference: What do you infer that Angelina’s parents are thinking as she is dancing down the stairs? What do we infer is the reason that Angelina is making sad and funny faces in the mirror? Verbs: Angelina skipped and practiced, and [...]
Schema: soup, favorite vegetables, gardening, tools Text-to-Self Connections: bring fresh or canned samples of green beans, green peas, corn, squash, and carrots to show. Open them or mix them if fresh in a pot to cook. Usually the school cafeteria has soup everyday so it might work to get some already made from there for [...]
Schema: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Text to Self Connections: wanting a book before bed, saying the words from memory with whoever is reading the book to you, telling the story just by looking at the pictures, sitting in laps and reading, honey cakes mentioned in many stories about bears and honey, and wanting a [...]
Subscribe in a reader