Schema: Ghosts, New Orleans, beignets The story is set in New Orleans and is about a family who opens a restaurant that is haunted. Fred, the ghost is a little timid and all of his attempts to scare people off only make the place more interesting to them. The main character, Marie, a child of [...]
Schema: drawing Text-to-Text Connections: obeying parents Text-to-Text Connection: Harold and the Purple Crayon Large font and colorful, but simple drawings make this a super read aloud. The plot sequence lends itself to teaching predicting. A young boy is about to draw when his mother says that no one draws on this particular day, Doodleday. He [...]
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: Hank the Cowdog series, mysteries, school, therapy dogs In this story Buddy notices a strange lizard with a blue tongue under some shelves in the library, and since he doesn’t know what it is, he calls it the “library monster.” The key to the furnace room at the school is missing, and a light [...]
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