Schema: pumpkins, fall, school activities Text-to-Self Connections: getting new shoes messed up Cause and Effect: Because Delly needed the shoes, the effect is that her dad found a way to buy them. Because the girls scuffed her shoes, the effect is Delly found a way to paint them to be beautiful. Because Delly’s shoes were [...]
Schema: honey bees Text-to-Self Connection: standing still when a bee is near, being afraid of bees Point of View: Rhyming text tells two tales from a bee’s point of view and a girl’s point of view as the two go to gather pollen and berries. Both are afraid of each other, but their mothers tell [...]
Schema: Hank the Cowdog series, mysteries, school, therapy dogs In this story Buddy notices a strange lizard with a blue tongue under some shelves in the library, and since he doesn’t know what it is, he calls it the “library monster.” The key to the furnace room at the school is missing, and a light [...]
Schema: telling the truth, not being believed, make believe Text-to-text: The Boy Who Cried Wolf Heavy paper for the pages, simple illustrations, and straightforward text combine to create a book young children, especially boys, will enjoy. Tim tells the truth about the unbelievable things that happen in his house and yard, but his parents do [...]
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