Archive for the 'Science' Category

The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara & Mark Fearing

Schema: The original story of the three little pigs Compare and Contrast: the original story with the modern one Personification: the robot Characterize the robot and the wolf in the original story The story of the Three Little Pigs meets the space age in this new twist on the original story. The three aliens all [...]

The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. Roth

Schema: oceans, mangrove trees, fish Text-toText: The Sea, the Storm and the Mangrove Tangle by Lynne Cherry Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire Nivola So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting The author uses the pattern of “This is the house that Jack built” to build the story [...]

The Goose Man: The Story of Konrad Lorenz

Schema: geese, pets The goose man is Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian born doctor who devoted his life to the study of ethology, an animal behavior involving instinct. This focus of this book is on the his work about geese and how they communicate with different types of honks and how they imprint on the first [...]

Arthur Turns Green by Mark Brown

Schema: Earth Day, conservation Text to text connection: 10 Things I  Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh D.W., a preschooler, is concerned because she infers that the project Arthur is working on at school is making his hands, and those of her father, and Arthur’s  friend, Buster, turn green. The reader will [...]