Schema: oceans, mangrove trees, fish Text-toText: The Sea, the Storm and the Mangrove Tangle by Lynne Cherry Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire Nivola So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting The author uses the pattern of “This is the house that Jack built” to build the story [...]
Schema: geese, pets The goose man is Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian born doctor who devoted his life to the study of ethology, an animal behavior involving instinct. This focus of this book is on the his work about geese and how they communicate with different types of honks and how they imprint on the first [...]
Schema: Dust bowl, Great Depression, bullies, superheroes, sisters and brothers Author’s purpose: to entertain and inform about the depression Inference: The family was leaving Kansas, but then when the mysterious figure runs in front of the car, it seems that the family didn’t end up leaving Kansas. We may infer that the sudden stop caused [...]
Schema: fairy tales, element of magic Genre: traditional literature Setting: Virginia Predicting: Predict what young Sam will do when the man comes back with the request to make his wife young again Character Motivation: What motivates young Sam to charge the man for what the hired hand did? What motivates him to change at the [...]
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