Roy gets a saddle for his birthday. It comes with these instructions: "1. Find a horse. 2. Enjoy the ride." Roy doesn't know what a horse is. He travels along asking, "Are you a horse?"
This is a wonderful text for reading aloud with young readers. It could also be used as a pattern book with older kids when writing informational text with clues. Possible teaching points:
- Repeating line (text structure)
- Surprise ending
- Inferring
- Use of elipses
- Dialogue
- Use of capital letters for emphasis (voice)
- Adjectives. Andy Rash uses these words to describe a pig: "a fat, snorting thing rolling around in a mud puddle." His use of adjectives make this a great mentor text.
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