Schema: people you know that are always helping others
Sequencing: the book goes through each season
Setting: Vermont
Characterization: Make a graphic organizer to show Darrell’s characteristics.
With Tommy he takes the time to let him play like he is driving his truck
With The Barretts he gives the firewood to them even though they can not pay him now.
He [...]
Schema: sheep, wool, sweaters, cloaks, the invisible cloak in the Harry Potter stories
Text-to-Text Connections: These two books make a big connection in that they both talk about how wool is used to create a garment. Charlie shares more technical information about the process. Red Berry shows how the words used to create fabric can [...]
Schema: potatoes
Text-to-Self Connections: the one potato two potato rhyme crows, rodeo, roots growing out of the potato
Sequencing: counting, seasons
Reader’s Theater: The text is simple and could be written into a reader’s theater. Each student could hold a real potato and add some features to it with a marker.
Personification: The potatoes take on human characteristics.
Schema: soup, favorite vegetables, gardening, tools
Text-to-Self Connections: bring fresh or canned samples of green beans, green peas, corn, squash, and carrots to show. Open them or mix them if fresh in a pot to cook. Usually the school cafeteria has soup everyday so it might work to get some already made from there for a [...]
Schema: trees, birds, nests
Persuasion: This book might be a good example to teach persuasion. What are the birds trying to persuade Harry to do? What is Harry’s mother trying to persuade him to do? What is Harry trying to persuade his Mother to do?
Inferring: Harry infers that a car hit the bird.
I am inferring that [...]
Schema: pets; what do your pets do that make you love them?
Word Choice: This is a great book for verbs. The cat has lots of actions.
Many words that represent sounds are used.
Cause and Effect: Because the cat jumps into the paint, the effect is that the mother loves art and thinks he is artistic too.
Text-to-Self [...]
Schema: seeds, greenhouse, garden, Spring
Text-to-Self Connections: mail carrier bringing a package, seed coat like our coat to keep us warm and dry; Buddy has a text-to-self connection with food. Students may have a connection with saving seeds from fruit to plant. Some may have a connection with eating sunflower seeds or making a home made [...]
Schema: ducks, getting lost, or figuring out which way to go
Compare and Contrast (Characterization)Ruby and her siblings:
Siblings: Big Bold Adventurous/ Ruby: Small, Steady, Slow to tried new things
The siblings go on an adventure:
1. through the edge of the reed beds
2. past a waterfall
3. to the middle of the reed beds
4. through a winding water way
5. [...]
Schema: bird’s nests, wild birds
Text-to-text connection with Pale Male Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman
Cause and Effect: Because a man stole the other baby peregrine falcons, the effect is that Sam rescues Oksi and takes her to his forest home.
Compare and Contrast the nest home on the bridge with the nest home [...]
Schema: parks, apartments, birds, nests
Text-to-text connection with Frightful’s Daughter by Jean Craighead George; in both books the birds did things their own way which was different from birds of their species
Cause and Effect: Because Pale Male built his nest above the Fifth Ave. apartments, the effect was that the people who lived in the apartments [...]
