Archive for the 'Inference' Category

The Case of the Library Monster by Dori Hillestad Butler

Schema: Hank the Cowdog series, mysteries, school, therapy dogs In this story Buddy notices a strange lizard with a blue tongue under some shelves in the library, and since he doesn’t know what it is, he calls it the “library monster.”  The key to the furnace room at the school is missing, and a light [...]

Arthur Turns Green by Mark Brown

Schema: Earth Day, conservation Text to text connection: 10 Things I  Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh D.W., a preschooler, is concerned because she infers that the project Arthur is working on at school is making his hands, and those of her father, and Arthur’s  friend, Buster, turn green. The reader will [...]

My Mom Has X-Ray Vision by Angela Mcallister

Schema: superheroes, moms knowing when you are doing something you are not supposed to do Large colorful illustrations feature an African American preschool aged boy and his mother. Matthew’s mother has a great ears and knows him well. He infers that she may be a super hero and that she may have x-ray vision because [...]

The Desperate Dog Writes Again by Eileen Christelow

Schema: families, new moms and dads, getting a second pet, accepting change Text-to-text connections: Detective LaRue books by Teague, and Help Me, Mr. Mutt! by Stevens Emma, owned by George, and Hankie, owned by Loretta, are worried about what is happening to their owners, each thinking the other’s owner may be trying to kidnap their own owner, [...]