Schema: pets
Text-to-Text Connections: The Adventures of Sparrowboy by J. Brian Pinkney
Text-to-Self Connections: Pets chewing on things, lightning strikes during a storm
Words with Multiple meanings: striking
Compare and Contrast how Weezer was before and after the strike with a Venn Diagram http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/venn.pdf
Synthesis: What do you synthesize is Weezer’s hope for the world?
Schema: sharks, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
Compare and Contrast: Use a graphic organizer such as the Venn diagram,
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer, 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 lib after reading [...]
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: making tamales, looking forward to getting to do the things your older brothers and sisters are doing
Text-to-Self connections: helping mother, wishing to be older
Sequencing: The book begins when Ana is 6, and she goes through each part of the book with her age increasing.
Math: numbers are added by 2’s throughout the story
Mental Images: The [...]
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: sheep, wool, sweaters, cloaks, the invisible cloak in the Harry Potter stories
Text-to-Text Connections: These two books make a big connection in that they both talk about how wool is used to create a garment. Charlie shares more technical information about the process. Red Berry shows how the words used to create fabric can [...]
Making Thinking Visible: The terms I am explaining below work together to create connections that will help young children to increase their reading comprehension. For years we have taught reading in abstract terms and many children do become great readers by being exposed to books and reading. Some of us need something more concrete to [...]
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: following rules
Text-to-text connections: Pinkerton Behave by Steven Kellogg, Chewy Louie by Howie Schneider
Text-to-self connections: ask students to share the bad behavior of their dogs or pets
Sequencing and Organizational Strategy: The book follows the days of the week as Toby either behaves or misbehaves.
Cause and Effect: Because Toby misbehaves, the effect is his owners send [...]
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 [...]
