Hay un niño debajo de la cama 6-pack Author: Sian Burling-Claridge ISBN: 9780790327969 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: K Strategy/Skill: Comparing and contrasting, Making connections, Making predictions Genre: Fantasy Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This is a humorous and lively version of a traditional tale. Smook is a monster, and one day he finds a boy under his bed.  Despite his fear of humans, a friendship develops between the boy and Smook.  They realize they have a lot in common.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of making connections with real-life experiences, making and confirming predictions, and comparing and contrasting.

Text Features

• the themes of tolerance, celebrating differences, and not judging what is feared
• the relationship between the characters and the friendship that develops despite their differences
• the narrative structure and use of dialogue to drive it
• the indicators of time – next morning, at dinner time
• the interesting past-tense action verbs – snatched, croaked, flopped, squeaked, poked, flip-flopped, crawled, shoved, wriggled
• the words ending in “ed”
• the opposites – locked and unlocked, up and down
• the irregular past-tense verbs
• the contractions – there’s, don’t, couldn’t, he’d, didn’t, can’t, boy’s, I’ll
• the onomatopoeia – aaargh, boo, thump, ouch, icky
• the colloquial language
• the punctuation for emphasis and direction
• the compound words – trapdoor, marshmallow, snailburgers, seaweed, upset
• the interesting imaginative content words – snailburgers, Smook, slug slime, Colossa

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