Schema: farm animals and sounds Text-to-Text Connections: Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin Use the cluster word web to describe the farm animals attributes. Write farm animal in the center, then add the animal and their attributes in the extended bubbles. Cause and Effect: Because Hilda Mae Heifer was hit in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Text-to-text connection: The Little Red Hen 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 [...]
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