Schema: holiday meals, favorite birthday meal
Text-to-text Connections: Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic, Tumbleweed Stew by Susan Stevens Crummel
Mental Images: Badgers makes a mental image of a mole taco, a rat burger, and a rabbit banana split. The expression in his eyes on the cover indicate that he is imagining something. This is a great book [...]
Schema: runt, Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Drawing Conclusions: When we draw a conclusion we should be able to go back and find evidence in the text to support it. When Turk concludes that Runt has been right about being chosen to be a dinner is a great place to talk about drawing [...]
Schema: mummies, geometry, Egypt
Cause and Effect: Because the kids get locked inside of the pyramid, the effect is that they have to find the clues in order to get out.
Compare and Contrast: the different shapes and number of faces on each one
Sequencing: Make a map that sequences the trail to the Pharaoh.
Schema: stew, Texas, tumbleweeds
Text-to-Self Connections: making vegetable soup
Text-to-Text Connection: The Little Red Hen, Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman, Stone Soup, Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic
Cause and Effect: Because Rabbit is so persuasive, the effect is that he motivates the others to bring some ingredients for the soup.
Predicting: What do you predict the animals will bring [...]
Schema: chili
Text-to-Text Connection: Little Red Hen
Cause and Effect: Because the animals did not want to help Miss Billie, the effect is that she is not going to allow them to eat the chili.
Because the other animals felt bad, the effect is that they made some dishes to take to Miss Billie’s to contribute to the [...]
Schema: a battle, western movies with gun fights
Text-to-Self Connections:
Compare and Contrast: Hamilton: born in the Caribbean
Burr: born in the U.S.
Both lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, raised by people who were not their parents, active fighters in the American Revolution, served as aides to General George Washington, jealous and envious of one another, both fake friendly [...]
