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Hay un niño debajo de la cama
6-pack
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
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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
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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