Suzanne Hardin

Max and Toby, the two dogs in Dogs at School and No Dogs
Allowed, go to a ball game.
■ Fiction fantasy recount
■ Third person
■ Past tense
■ Specialized vocabulary
■ Environmental print, sign: BALL GAME TODAY
■ Assumes knowledge of baseball
■ Link with No Dogs Allowed and Dogs at School with same
characters and at this level
■ Diagram of baseball field on inside back cover
■ Working for accuracy and fluency
■ Understanding how punctuation aids fluency and expression
■ Identifying letter patterns and… (lisätietoja)

A classroom rabbit plays a trick.
■ Fiction recount
■ First person plural
■ Past tense
■ Range of sentence beginnings and structures
■ Some dialogue
■ Varying amounts of text from one to seven lines per page
■ Line breaks do not always match natural phrasing
■ Coping with longer text
■ Restating sections of text in own words
Attending to word endings, especially -ed, -ing
■ Identifying chunks of meaning to aid fluency—some of these
will continue into the next line
■ Identifying sentence beginnings denoting time—Every day,
When it was time, One morning, One day after lunch, All
afternoon… (lisätietoja)