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: farm animals and sounds Text-to-Text Connections: Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin Use the cluster word web to describe the farm animals attributes. Write farm animal in the center, then add the animal and their attributes in the extended bubbles. Cause and Effect: Because Hilda Mae Heifer was hit in the [...]
Schema: wild birds Read the note at the back of the book so the students can understand the problem better before you begin the book. Text-to-self connections: doing a project with a sibling, feeling sorry for the birds, seeing problems that wild birds cause What city animals help keep the balance of nature in our [...]
Schema: sticks, playing with sticks Text-to-Text Connections: Over in the Meadow, an old rhyme about the animals in a meadow; the rhyme goes something like, “over in the meadow in the sand and the sun lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one…” See the lyrics Also a connection with the Gingerbread Man [...]
Schema: following rules Text-to-text connections: Pinkerton Behave by Steven Kellogg, Chewy Louie by Howie Schneider Text-to-self connections: ask students to share the bad behavior of their dogs or pets Sequencing and Organizational Strategy: The book follows the days of the week as Toby either behaves or misbehaves. Cause and Effect: Because Toby misbehaves, the effect [...]
Schema: origami, making a wish Author’s Purpose: to share the experience of learning about Christmas in Japan. Mental Images: The mother describes the lights and trees in California to her son. Organizational Strategy: Flashback: the book begins with the narrator telling the reader that he had not been back to the pond since he was [...]
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 [...]
Schema: visiting pumpkin farms, tricking someone Text-to-self connections: choosing a pumpkin, playing dunking for apples, biting a donut on a string, not wanting to play with a girl if you are a boy Predicting: Why to you predict Andy is hiding from Delores in the pumpkin patch? Maybe he is afraid of her, maybe he [...]
Schema: visiting the library Text-to-Self Connections: visiting the library, learning all about what is available at the library, listening to read alouds, learning about the different genres Text-to-Text Connections: I.Q. Visits the Library by Mary Ann Fraser; in this book students visit the library, take a tour with the librarian and learn about everything available [...]
Schema: cover shows kids in a classroom raising their hands, teacher writing on board Text-to-Self Connections: so many with every part of the school and all of the people who work there from custodians, crossing guards, nurses, principals, books, and all things to do with education except the counselor who is left out. When you [...]
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