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 [...]
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