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 http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/observe.pdf
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 why the ducks are [...]
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: 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 [...]
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: folktales, purpose of folktales
Author’s purpose: the original author’s purpose may have been to illustrate what happens when we don’t think ahead or make a plan
Drawing Conclusions: What conclusion do you think Henny Penny came to, and what evidence from the story supports it?
Because the fox sneezed, the effect is that the animals were expelled [...]
Schema: Christmas trees, theme of the White House Christmas tree
Author’s Purpose: Gloria Houston and her family grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina; the historical fiction story depicts what life was like in the early 1900’s during World War I.
Characterization: Characterize the mother in the story and use example from the text as [...]
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 different from that [...]
Schema: Little Red Riding
Synonyms: Each page has a focus word printed large at the top of each page, and the word is used in context. Ask students to give you a synonym for some of the words as you read.
Carmine writes a haiku about her grandmother. Students may connect with writing their own haiku.
Inferences: the [...]
Schema: Frankenstein, Halloween, having a new baby in the family
Point of View: The story is told from a monster family’s point of view. From the parents’ point of view, Frankie is the scariest of all of the family.
Voice: The voice of the book is that of the monster parents until the end. Then we can [...]
Schema: handmade brooms, fall decorations, define widow
Text-to-self connections: fantasy fiction with witches
Cause and Effect: Because the witches broom lost its power suddenly, the effect is that the witch falls to the ground and is injured.
Because the widow is kind to the witch by giving her a place to heal, the effect is that she leaves [...]
