"What's Hatching from the Egg" (Side-by-Side Comparison)

Dora’s Eggs - By:  Julie Sykes

Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones - By:  Ruth Heller

Nothing is more satisfying than using a good picture book as a vehicle for capturing the imagination of your young student writers while teaching some of the important pre-writing concepts which serve as the foundation for narrative writing!

Objective:

• Summarize a character/problem/solution narrative vs. summarizing an expository book
• Students will write a suspenseful piece, using word referents about something hatching out of an egg

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