Schema: diesel trucks, Hansel and Gretel
Compare and Contrast: Use a graphic organizer such as the Venn Diagram, http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer, to compare with the fairytale, Hansel and Gretel, by James Marshall.
Personification: The truck rigs are given personalities and speak as human characters.
Reader’s Theater: This story would lend itself well to a reader’s theater presentation. Students could ad [...]
Schema: sticks, playing with sticks
Text-to-Text Connections: Over in the Meadow, an old rhyme about the animals in a meadow; the rhyme goes something like, “over in the meadow in the sand and the sun lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one…” See the lyrics at: http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/overinthemeadowlyrics.htm
Also a connection with the Gingerbread Man [...]
Schema: ice from the fridge, icebergs
Text-to-text Connections: Gingerbread Man stories, stories where characters are being chased
Compare and Contrast: the animals that want to eat or cool off with the ice cube to characters in other versions of the Gingerbread Man. Compare the whale with the fox in the original story.
Sequencing: Sequence from the last animal [...]
Schema: turtles, desert settings, Grandma’s house looks like a sand dome
Text-to-text connection: other retellings of Little Red Riding Hood
Predicting: What do you predict the animals will do in order to save the turtles from the coyote?
Cause and Effect: Because Tortuga’s friends made the noise at Tortuga’s grandmother’s house, the effect is that Coyote is frightened [...]
Schema: Three Little other stories, food
Text-to-text connection: The Three Little Pigs, Texas town of Laredo, the Spanish terms, Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto.
Sequencing: In both stories, the events follow a similar sequence, with the third house in each one being the strongest
Compare and Contrast: How is the ending of this story different from that [...]
Schema: handmade brooms, fall decorations, define widow
Text-to-self connections: fantasy fiction with witches
Cause and Effect: Because the witches broom lost its power suddenly, the effect is that the witch falls to the ground and is injured.
Because the widow is kind to the witch by giving her a place to heal, the effect is that she leaves [...]
Schema: visiting pumpkin farms, tricking someone
Text-to-self connections: choosing a pumpkin, playing dunking for apples, biting a donut on a string, not wanting to play with a girl if you are a boy
Predicting: Why to you predict Andy is hiding from Delores in the pumpkin patch?
Maybe he is afraid of her, maybe he wants to jump [...]
Schema: potatoes
Text-to-Self Connections: the one potato two potato rhyme crows, rodeo, roots growing out of the potato
Sequencing: counting, seasons
Reader’s Theater: The text is simple and could be written into a reader’s theater. Each student could hold a real potato and add some features to it with a marker.
Personification: The potatoes take on human characteristics.
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 wordless pages.
Mental [...]
Schema: dogs, talking dogs, Martha cartoon shows on television
Inferring: The family thinks the Inn will infer that Marth is a person when they put her in the wheel chair.
What does the maid infer when she sees a very full Martha and a pile of bones on the floor?
What do dogs infer when they hear the [...]
