Archive for the 'Summarizing' Category

Martha Calling by Susan Meddaugh

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 [...]

May 26th, 2009
Posted in Genres, Inference, Personification, Picture Books, Poetry & Figurative Language, Predicting, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Summarizing, Synthesis
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Out of the Egg by Tina Matthews

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 [...]

April 5th, 2009
Posted in Compare and Contrast, Genres, Picture Books, Point of View, Summarizing, Synthesis
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