Archive for September, 2009

The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram & Susan Bloom

Schema: visiting the library Text-to-Self Connections: visiting the library, learning all about what is available at the library, listening to read alouds, learning about the different genres Text-to-Text Connections: I.Q. Visits the Library by Mary Ann Fraser; in this book students visit the library, take a tour with the librarian and learn about everything available [...]

T is for Teachers A School Alphabet by Steven L. Layne

Schema: cover shows kids in a classroom raising their hands, teacher writing on board Text-to-Self Connections: so many with every part of the school and all of the people who work there from custodians, crossing guards, nurses, principals, books, and all things to do with education except the counselor who is left out.  When you [...]

I.Q. Goes to the Library by Mary Ann Fraser

Schema: our school library, our classroom, our class pets Text-to-Self Connections: going to the school library Sitting in a special corner or area of the library Listening to stories in the library Wanting to check out the book the librarian is reading to the class Seeing magazines, puppets, newspapers in the library Noticing that we [...]

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Horse in the House by Erica Silverman

Schema: cover image of the horse eating from a fruit bowl should connect students’ schema to horses, fruit, whether they like fruit, have any animals ever come in their house that should not be in the house? Text-to-self connections: trying to stop an animal from doing something it is not supposed to do or get [...]