Schema: Pirates or sailors on ships, missing a hand or a foot, we can infer that they take risks if they are missing a limb, they wear funny hats, have parrots for pets, brave, hunt buried treasure, modern pirates steal and harm Text to self connections: Pirates of the Caribbean’s Jack Sparrow, Peter Pan’s Captain [...]
Schema: clouds, things that we see in the sky, different types of precipitation Text-to-Text Connections: Both books are about weather and the sky. The rhymes in Sky will make a connections from nursery rhymes. Text-to-Self Connections: Some kids will have seen a double rainbow, snow, fireworks, and tornadoes. Sequencing: Notice in Sky that there is [...]
Schema: teachers after school may grade papers, meet with other teachers, play with the class pet, call parents, make copies, go home Text-to-Text Connections: Both books are about teachers and what they do at school; Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. Compare and Contrast: What teachers do during school with what they do after [...]
Schema: March winds, the old saying that “March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb,” chasing something that has blown away Cause and Effect: Because it was so windy, the effect is that everything is blowing away Predicting: Ask the students to predict what is going to blow away next. There are [...]
Schema: camping, ducks, fall Text-to-Self Connections: fishing Cause and Effect: Because one duck slips, the effect is that the other ducks “sprawl.” Use the Observation graphic to chart the activities that go with the five senses. Inference: What do you infer that the whooo whooo noise is from? Drawing Conclusions: What do you conclude about [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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