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: sneezing, allergies
Text-to-Self Connections: sneezing for one of the reasons listed in the book; understanding how the brain works to make connections
Although this nonfiction book discusses the causes and physical reactions associated with sneezing, the book is an excellent source for showing how the brain makes connections.
Inventors: At the end of the book, the author [...]
Schema: holiday meals, favorite birthday meal
Text-to-text Connections: Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic, Tumbleweed Stew by Susan Stevens Crummel
Mental Images: Badgers makes a mental image of a mole taco, a rat burger, and a rabbit banana split. The expression in his eyes on the cover indicate that he is imagining something. This is a great book [...]
Schema: favorite foods, weather, tall tales
Text-to-Self Connections: food, making up a story
Mental Images: Make a mental image of your favorite food falling from the sky and you trying to catch it
Cause and Effect: Because of the pancake landing on Henry, the effect is that Grandpa made up the tall tale about falling food.
Inference: What do [...]
Schema: reading in bed before going to sleep, falling asleep while reading, losing a book
Text-to-Self Connections: getting snuggley in bed with a book and stuffed animals, think about where you look at your house when you have lost a library book.
Inference: Have students infer what the words would be on the first few wordless pages.
Mental [...]
Schema: our school library, our classroom, our class pets
Text-to-Self Connections: going to the school library
Sitting in a special corner or area of the library
Listening to stories in the library
Wanting to check out the book the librarian is reading to the class
Seeing magazines, puppets, newspapers in the library
Noticing that we have similar books, chapter, hardcover, [...]
Schema: playing outside, rain
Text-to-self connections: What do you like to do outside?
Compare and Contrast: Things to do when it is raining with things to do when it is sunny outside
Point of View: Seeing a problem from someone else’s point of view helped Piggie. He is upset that it is raining, but when he sees how [...]
Schema: list things you want
Mental Images: Make a mental image of the pigeon riding on the puppy’s back like piggyback.
Synthesis: Explain why watering a puppy once a month is not correctly caring of a pet.
What’s not right about playing tennis with a puppy?
What made the pigeon change his mind?
Text-to-self connections: What things have you [...]
Schema: riding the school bus, bus drivers
Text-to-self connections: begging parents for something you want
Point of View: Who’s POV are we listening to as we read this book? How does this POV differ from the bus driver’s POV?
Mental Images: Make a mental image of the pigeon driving the bus when you get to the Vroom-Vroom [...]
Schema: teachers, field trips
Inference: Mrs. Millie uses animal words that rhyme in place of the real word. Ask the students to infer what Mrs. Millie really means before you read what her students say when they correct her.
Mental Images: Make a mental image of the things Mrs. Millie says. The illustrations will help you. Talk [...]
