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Why There Are Shooting Stars
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478120622
Grade Level:
2
Reading Level:
K
Strategy/Skill:
Comparing and contrasting, Making connections, Text structure, Using texts as models for own writing
Genre:
Folk Tale/Traditional Story
Theme/Topic:
Animals, Birds, and Insects
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Early-Fluent
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Book Summary
In this folktale, successive coyotes take on more than they can cope with when they insist that they can dance with the stars. When, at last, they fall, the people on Earth see them as shooting stars.
Features of the Book
- Paragraphs to indicate a change in place, time, or speaker.
- The various forms of the word “dance” – “danced,” “dancing,” and “dancer.”
- The word endings – “ed” and “ing.”
- The use of the words “moons” and “snows” to measure time.
- The contractions – “can’t” and “couldn’t.”
- The style of the framed illustrations.
Purpose
Why There Are Shooting Stars can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:
- recognizing the features of different genres
- comparing the opinions of the author with those of the reader
- comparing books by different authors written in the same genre
- writing in a similar style to that of the story
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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