Schema: math, school, Boston terriers
Text-to-Self Connections: homework, eating jellybeans
Author’s Purpose: The author uses her story and the events in it to explain the mathematical concept of probability.
Predicting: Have your students predict along with the students in the book.
Summarizing and Synthesis: Ask students to summarize the story and explain what they have synthesized about probability.
Schema: dogs, talking dogs, Martha cartoon shows on television
Inferring: The family thinks the Inn will infer that Marth is a person when they put her in the wheel chair.
What does the maid infer when she sees a very full Martha and a pile of bones on the floor?
What do dogs infer when they hear the [...]
Schema: story of The Little Red Hen; have students retell it calling on several and having them pick up where the last student left off
Point of View: The story is told from the red hen’s point of view. How does the mother hen’s POV change when her chick says what she is telling the other [...]
