Just Teenie by Susan Meddaugh
Schema: small, wanting to be big, not being about to ride certain rides at amusement parks
Letter Sounds: lots of “t” words
Inference: Teenie infers that what is in the small box will make her grow.
Text-to-text connection: Jack and the Bean Stalk
What do you infer that the plant is doing to get all of the stuff in its limbs? stealing?
Double Meaning: “on top of the world” meaning being happy and also up really high
Predicting: What do you predict will happen next summer with the three seeds?
Cause and Effect: Because the plant took things, the effect is that people wanted to cut it down.


