Schema: sea, setting Questions to activate background knowledge: Can you think of another time in history where a group of people have been treated unfairly because of the color of their skin? Can you imagine being taken away from your family because of your ethnicity? Why is the title so far from the sea when [...]
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: 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. 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, 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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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