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: 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: people who sell things with commercials on TV; a fox is the character telling the story so what is our usual stereotype of a fox in a story-usually a bad guy? What preconceived ideas do we have about salesmen or telephone marketers who call and try to get us to buy something? Persuasion: This [...]
Schema: sharks, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Compare and Contrast: Use a graphic organizer such as the Venn diagram, to compare and contrast with The Three Little Pigs. Compare and contrast with The Three Little Rigs. Reader’s Theater: This story would work well with the reader’s theater format. Students could ad [...]
Schema: diesel trucks, Hansel and Gretel Compare and Contrast: Use a graphic organizer such as the Venn Diagram 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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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: holiday meals, favorite birthday meal Text-to-text Connections: Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic, Tumbleweed Stew by Susan Stevens Crummel Mental Images: Badgers makes a mental image of a mole taco, a rat burger, and a rabbit banana split. The expression in his eyes on the cover indicate that he is imagining something. This is a [...]
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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