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: beginning a new school year, going to a new club, church, or class
Text-to-text Connections: Miss Mingo and the First Day of School by Jamie Harper; First Grade, Here I Come by Nancy Carlson
Text-to-Self Connections: leaving parents to go to school, being afraid to try something new; what connection did Jake make with the book [...]
Schema: Gingerbread Man
Text-to-Text Connections: other gingerbread man stories such as The Gingerbread Baby and The Gingerbread Girl by Jan Brett, Gingerbread Mouse by Katy Bratun
Compare and Contrast: Both of these books have a Texas twist with characters and setting reflecting the southwest.
Sequence the events in each story.
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: stew, Texas, tumbleweeds
Text-to-Self Connections: making vegetable soup
Text-to-Text Connection: The Little Red Hen, Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman, Stone Soup, Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic
Cause and Effect: Because Rabbit is so persuasive, the effect is that he motivates the others to bring some ingredients for the soup.
Predicting: What do you predict the animals will bring [...]
Schema: text-to-text connections with Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Parody: copying someone’s style in a humorous way, making a spoof of something
Goodnight Goon is a parody of Goodnight Moon.
Compare and Contrast:
Similarities: same story pattern, same room design, same color of P.J.’s, both have snacks in their rooms, both have rocking chairs, both have red headboards, [...]
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: mice, food, snacks
Text-to-Self Connections: quiet sounds, stuffed toys, bedtime snacks;
using brown sugar packed in a measuring cup, the mouse stacks the forms up to build a sandcastle like structure. Have you ever packed sand in a cup to build a sandcastle?
Condiments: olives, pickles, catsup–What is your favorite?
Bubble bath in a cup–Have you ever [...]
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 in [...]
Schema: cover shows kids in a classroom raising their hands, teacher writing on board
Text-to-Self Connections: so many with every part of the school and all of the people who work there from custodians, crossing guards, nurses, principals, books, and all things to do with education except the counselor who is left out. When you get [...]
