Last year Beverly Combs suggested putting a diaper on a book and comparing taking care of a book to taking care of a baby. It worked great! I told the kids I was going to do something that would make them laugh, and then I pulled the diaper out of my bag and put it [...]
Schema: Tell me about times you have been upset because someone is bothering you in some way?
Text-to-self connections: Think about how you deal with someone bothering you. Do you tell on them to someone else like your teacher or parent?
Metaphor: For older children, this book is a great example of metaphor. The bird on Gerald’s [...]
Schema: playing outside, rain
Text-to-self connections: What do you like to do outside?
Compare and Contrast: Things to do when it is raining with things to do when it is sunny outside
Point of View: Seeing a problem from someone else’s point of view helped Piggie. He is upset that it is raining, but when he sees how [...]
Schema: wanting to stay up late, following rules
Text-to-self connections: having a bedtime schedule, making up excuses, begging for something
Text-to-text connections: The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems
Synthesis: Retell the story using something you really like to do that your parents may not want you to do. Here’s an example: Maybe you want to [...]
Schema: hot dogs, finding something
Text-to-self connections: not wanting to share, knowing what hot dogs taste like
Synthesis: Does a hot dog taste like chicken?
What does Finders Keepers mean?
Predicting: What do you predict the little pigeon’s idea is going to be?
Math: the concept of half
Text-to-text connections: other Pigeon books
Schema: list things you want
Mental Images: Make a mental image of the pigeon riding on the puppy’s back like piggyback.
Synthesis: Explain why watering a puppy once a month is not correctly caring of a pet.
What’s not right about playing tennis with a puppy?
What made the pigeon change his mind?
Text-to-self connections: What things have you [...]
Schema: riding the school bus, bus drivers
Text-to-self connections: begging parents for something you want
Point of View: Who’s POV are we listening to as we read this book? How does this POV differ from the bus driver’s POV?
Mental Images: Make a mental image of the pigeon driving the bus when you get to the Vroom-Vroom [...]
Schema: first days of school, third grade, speaking in front of the class, telling something about yourself
Text-to-self connections: being afraid to speak in front of the class, not listening to others and thinking about what you want to say instead
Drawing Conclusions: Tag draws the conclusion that it is not important what others think of her, [...]
