Archive for February, 2011

The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward

Schema: trees Personification: The point of view is from the tree.  The tree’s voice is heard through a rhyming text about a tree from its roots to its branches. Author’s Purpose: The simple text provides the reader with the basic information about how a tree grows, what lives in it, and what lives below it. [...]

February 1st, 2011
Posted in Author's Purpose, Earth Day, Genres, Personification, Picture Books, Reader's Theater, Rhyming, Science
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A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker

Schema: making new friends, being stubborn, feeling alone Point of View: The story is told from Bear’s POV. Cause and Effect: How can consistently being kind to another change a person?  Bear finally realized that he enjoyed company: text evidence- where Bear says no one ever told him his fire was nice and when he [...]

February 1st, 2011
Posted in Cause and Effect, Genres, Picture Books, Point of View
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