Archive for the 'Voice' Category

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Schema: Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Text-to-text:  Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford Metaphor: The story uses an extended metaphor to compare the Civil Rights movement to a recipe throughout the story.  Author’sPurpose: to share a story about the civil rights movement and to teach us about African American history Author’s [...]

Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

Schema: teachers, fifth grade Text-to-Self Connections: many students will identify with one of the seven characters Text-to-Text Connections: Jessica refers to many great books that she is reading throughout the book. Students will relate to some of the titles. Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars is about a girl and her mentally handicapped brother, [...]

Robot Zot by Jon Scieszka

Schema: Robot Zot is not from planet earth, so the things we have in our schema are not in his.  He fights with a blender, mixer, coffee maker, toaster, television, and thinks that a dog in a warrior to contend with as well. This book would be a great example of how we have to [...]

Thunder-Boomer! by Shutta Crum

Schema: thunderstormSetting: outside on a farm POV: The narrator is the young girl in the story who tells the story in first person.  The day is hot, and everyone on the farm is hot and lazy except for Dad, then a big thunderstorm begins. Text-to-Self Connections: Being outside when a storm blows in, feeling the [...]