GENRE
What's the genre of Cake and I Scream? How do you know?
Fiction. I know because cake and ice cream can't really talk.
How would you describe Ice Cream?
Ice Cream is mean, bossy, selfish.
How are the boy and his dragon similar?
They are similar because they like the same things: birthdays, parades, fireworks.
What are the fiction thinking jobs?
Characters, Motivation, Problem, Solution, Lesson Learned
What two things do we use to make inferences?
Text evidence and Schema
How do we know Pedro is helpful?
He tries to make Jojo feel better after she got a bad grade.
He saved the fish and caught the pencil
What's the genre of Ruby Bridges Goes to School? How do you know?
Non-fiction or biography because it's about a real person and something that really happened in history.
How did Kenny's feelings change in Kenny and the Little Kickers?
In the beginning, he didn't like soccer because he was bad but by the end he liked soccer and wanted to play every week.
He thought he was too fat and too big.
What is the author teaching us?
What is the author's point of view?
Why didn't the dad like the mummy idea on Dragon?
He didn't like the mummy idea because it made a mess and used up all the toilet paper.
How are the boy and his dragon different?
The boy likes Halloween and trick-or-treating. Dragon? Not so much
What are the thinking jobs for a poem?
How did Ruby Bridges change history?
She changed history because after she went to the white school, more black students were able to go to white schools.
Why didn't Pedro write his speech?
He tried to write his speech and got distracted catching the pencil and trying to cheer up Jojo.