Archive for the 'Christmas' Category

Tree of Cranes by Alan Say

Schema: origami, making a wish Author’s Purpose: to share the experience of  learning about Christmas in Japan. Mental Images: The mother describes the lights and trees in California to her son. Organizational Strategy: Flashback: the book begins with the narrator telling the reader that he had not been back to the pond since he was [...]

January 5th, 2010
Posted in Author's Purpose, Christmas, Drawing Conclusions, Genres, Organizational Strategies, Picture Books, Point of View, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Sequencing, Time Sensitive Topics, Voice
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The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: an Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston

Schema: Christmas trees, theme of the White House Christmas tree Text-to-Text Connection: That Book Woman by Heather Henson and Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile ( historical fiction using cause and effect and drawing conclusions) by Gloria Houston Author’s Purpose:   Gloria Houston and her family grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina; the historical [...]

January 5th, 2010
Posted in Alliteration, Author's Purpose, Characterization, Christmas, Genres, Inference, metaphor, Organizational Strategies, Picture Books, Poetry & Figurative Language, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Time Sensitive Topics, Voice
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