Slice of Life: DT

I rode the bus and my friend was not on the bus! I had to talk to the people sitting next to me.

Slice of Life: Mrs. Overman #2

Where in the world was I? Where's my baby? These thoughts raced through my mind, despite how cloudy it was. I kept hearing my mom say, "Please, can someone let her hold him? Will she get to hold him?" Then she would turn to me and say, "Don't worry, they're going to let you hold him before they take him away." Soon Ian was wheeled into my recovery room in a more-than-frightening looking medical box. All I could think was, "Thank God I can't talk. If he heard my voice and recognized it, I couldn't get through this."

BG: Coco's Read It Yourself Book.

BG told Coco's story, ended Coco's story, then added an epilogue (an ending after the regular story) to his book. Could you write like BG? Why do writers add epilogues?

Slice of Life: CG

Yesterday at recess I played with my friends Zack and Dean! Dean pushed me down the slide and Zack tried to push me and someone else tried to push him!


Today my Papa went to work at 5:00 and woke me and I went back to sleep at 6:00 and woke up at 7:00.

Slice of Life: Mrs. Overman

This morning I heard a noise outside my window after I woke up. (I've enjoyed waking up to more light lately). I stopped what I was doing to listen more carefully--and, just as I thought it was--the sound was chirping birds! Spring is finally coming! There is little more that I love than waking up in the light of morning with birds chirping outside my window.

Why KM thinks David Shannon made all this so big!

KM thinks that David Shannon gives us clues about how we're supposed to read the text...he noticed it's really big text and ends with an excited mark, so you're probably supposed to yell the words when you read it. He thinks maybe David Shannon zoomed in on Fergus here so you'd feel like they're yelling for him by looking at the picture too. What do YOU think? (taken from "Good Boy, Fergus!" by David Shannon)

How David Shannon shows action in his pictures.

KM and I were talking about how David Shannon drew lines and hair going backward to show Fergus' hair blowing in the wind as he rode in the car. KM said, "Look, even his collar is blowing backward too!" Can you show action like David Shannon? (taken from D. Shannon's book "Good Boy, Fergus!")