Schema: reading in bed before going to sleep, falling asleep while reading, losing a book Text-to-Self Connections: getting snuggley in bed with a book and stuffed animals, think about where you look at your house when you have lost a library book. Inference: Have students infer what the words would be on the first few [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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