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 at: http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/overinthemeadowlyrics.htm
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 is his owners send [...]
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 not old enough [...]
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: 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 wants to jump [...]
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 in [...]
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 get [...]
Schema: What can tall people do? What’s in your schema about being tall?
Characterization: List the traits of Kylie Bell using a bubble map or other graphic organizer: brave, smart, big at hear, positive attitude, great imagination, not “a moper, a pouter, or a whiner,” proud, athletic, acrobatic, polite, fast, forgiving, compassionate
Cause and Effect: Because Kylie [...]
Schema: dogs, problems with dogs, charts and graphs, letter writing, check the cover and think about having to dress up in clothes you might not like
What’s in your schema about the food pyramid?
Compare and Contrast: Compare Mr. Mutt’s food pyramid to the one suggested for people.
Compare and contrast the behavior of cats and dogs. Do [...]
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 text [...]
