Schema: pets, choosing a pet Text-to-Self Connections: Choosing a pet, getting a pet that causes problems Text-to-Text Connections: What Pet to Get by Emma Dodd Author’s purpose: The main reason the author wrote the book could be to show students the process of choosing the right pet, and also, how an author has to follow [...]
Schema: The original story of the three little pigs Compare and Contrast: the original story with the modern one Personification: the robot Characterize the robot and the wolf in the original story The story of the Three Little Pigs meets the space age in this new twist on the original story. The three aliens all [...]
Schema: horses, saddles, birthdays; Roy does not have “horse” in his schema so he has to ask other to share with him. Characterization: Characterize the traits of a horse as each animal character shares a bit about horses. He is told that it is a living thing, an animal, has legs, is friendly, doesn’t change [...]
Schema: foxes, sheep, not following directions, forgetting where you leave books Text-to-Text Connections: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig has similar illustrations of the animals. The Teeny Tiny Woman also has a talking bone in the story. Personification: The bone takes on human characteristics and feelings. Compare and Contrast with Chris Van Allsburg’s [...]
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