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: ducks, getting lost, or figuring out which way to go Compare and Contrast (Characterization)Ruby and her siblings: Siblings: Big Bold Adventurous/ Ruby: Small, Steady, Slow to tried new things The siblings go on an adventure: 1. through the edge of the reed beds 2. past a waterfall 3. to the middle of the reed [...]
Schema: ducks, ducklings, they swim, fly, lay eggs, Ruby is a name and a jewel Questions: What does Ruby do in her own time? Is the duck’s name Ruby? Her mother says she is small and precious. Have you heard of a jewel called a ruby? Characterization: List all of Ruby’s traits. Word choice: Directional [...]
Translated from Japanese Schema: Following directions, why it is important Drawing Conclusions: The cats draw the conclusion that it is ok for them to pick a flower. What is the flaw in their reasoning? Predicting: What do you predict the cats will do when they come to the tree? The bag? Cause and Effect: Because [...]
Schema: possums, playing possum, marsupials, folktales Genre: Folktale; noodlehead story which is a silly, harmless story Internal Consistency: Epossumondas just follows directions, but he doesn’t think about the cause and effect of his actions. Do you think Epossumondas would ever disobey his mama or his auntie? Cause and Effect: Because Epossumondas doesn’t think and just [...]
Schema: What do you know about buffalo? bison, mammal, used for food, hooves used for tools long ago Historical fiction: The fictional story is based on the true life story of Mary Ann Goodnight who lived in the Palo Duro Canyon in 1876. Readers see what it is like to live in a dugout and [...]
Schema: What’s in your schema about a folktale? The story represents a value of the culture. The setting and names are usually related to the country of origin. Think about whether you would you tell a lie to gain something for yourself such as being named Emperor or winning the love of someone? Text to [...]
Figurative language, personification, and mental images are the strong points of this book. The author compares snow to a shy friend. Another passage talks about how children love snow and the snow loves them back by giving them angel wings and new snowman friends. One very touching thought is that the snow reminds us of [...]
Schema: folktales In this retelling of a folktale from India, a very greedy cat demonstrates his greed by eating everything. Sequencing could be used by sequencing the order of what he eats. Cause and Effect: Because cats eats too much, the effect is that he gets fat and gets cut open. Another effect is [...]
Schema: needing things, gardening, being lonely Text-to-Self Connection: eating potatoes In One Potato, Two Potato, the author retells an old folktale from China with an Irish twist. Text-to-Text Connection: The old couple in the book are named Mr. and Mrs. O’Grady. A previous book, Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong tells the same folktale [...]
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