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: Pirates or sailors on ships, missing a hand or a foot, we can infer that they take risks if they are missing a limb, they wear funny hats, have parrots for pets, brave, hunt buried treasure, modern pirates steal and harm Text to self connections: Pirates of the Caribbean’s Jack Sparrow, Peter Pan’s Captain [...]
Schema: clouds, things that we see in the sky, different types of precipitation Text-to-Text Connections: Both books are about weather and the sky. The rhymes in Sky will make a connections from nursery rhymes. Text-to-Self Connections: Some kids will have seen a double rainbow, snow, fireworks, and tornadoes. Sequencing: Notice in Sky that there is [...]
Schema: civil wars, traveling alone, the title which is a phrase from the U. S. National Anthem Before beginning, read the guide produced by the publisher which provides a background for understanding: Author’s purpose: The author takes us into the world of a refugee and helps refugee’s to see that they are not alone. POV: [...]
“To heal a sorrowing heart, give something that is dear to your own.” from the Note from Kimeli Naiyomah at the end of the book. Schema: cows, feeling sorrow for someone’s pain Text-to-self connection: remembering or hearing about September 11, 2001; being kind to others; feeling the emotion of something being “sweet and sad” because [...]
Schema: double meaning for the word “chicken” being a real chicken or being afraid Text-to-Self Connections: things you are afraid of, being called a chicken Cause and Effect: Because the chickens were frightened by the wolf, the effect is that they knocked themselves out of the hen house. Because they were locked out of 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 [...]
Anne of Green Gables meets the animal version of Swiss Family Robinson in this coming of age novel that incorporates a realistic plot about a young girl, McKenna, who is passed from foster home to foster home seeking love while trying to find her place in the world. She believes she is related to the [...]
Schema: people who sell things with commercials on TV; a fox is the character telling the story so what is our usual stereotype of a fox in a story-usually a bad guy? What preconceived ideas do we have about salesmen or telephone marketers who call and try to get us to buy something? Persuasion: This [...]
Schema: Marines, miracles Text-to-Text Connection: Heroic Afghan Dog Reunited With a U.S. Soldier Author’s purpose: The author is sharing his journey with Nubs because it is a miracle that he was able to get the dog from there back to his home in San Diego. Because Nubs did not give up on finding Major Dennis, [...]
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