Text-to-Text Connections

with two favorite books

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www.graphicsfactory.com

By Carolyn Wilhelm

There are 16 PDFs attached to this lesson. Just click on the paper iconto open and print when in normal mode, notWhile in slide show mode.

Let's go on a bear hunt!

decide to leaveFirst, we have to

and pack some supplies!

forest

Now, through the . . .

a deep, cold river

long, wavy grass

mud

snowstorm

narrow, gloomy cave

Oh, no! Some bears!

forest

snowstorm

mud

a deep, cold river

long, wavy grass

Let's go home!Back through:

door, stairs, and under the covers!

safe in the houseWHEW!

I'm glad those weren't realbears, aren't you?

Going on a Bear Hunt Timeline

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loom

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cave

snow

stor

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mud

a de

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old

river lo

ng, w

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gras

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door

, st

airs

,cov

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safe

in th

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use

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and

pack

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This is how we went on our bear hunt.

All three pages are the on PDF, above. Below are just pictures of the last two pages.

These are both PDFs

Knuffle Bunny Timeline

into the laundromat

Trixie helped Daddy

they go down the block

through the park

past the school

Arrange the first part of the story in order.

Left the laundromatand REALIZED SOMETHING!

decide to leave and take the laundry

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

Knuffle Bunny Timeline

into the laundromat

Trixie helped Daddy

they go down the block

through the park

past the school

Left the laundromatand REALIZED SOMETHING!

decide to leave and take the laundry

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

14

13

12

11

10

9

8

go all the way back to the laundromat

Whew!looked and looked

Aggle flaggle kabble!

go boneless

decide to leaveAGAIN

get home and mom realized something

they go down the block

through the park

past the school

Knuffle Bunny the Real Timelinefor dicussion purposes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

decide to

leaveget supplies

Trixie helped Daddy

they go down the block

through the park

past the sch

ool

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REALIZED SOMETHING!

Aggle flaggle kabble!

16 17

go boneless

decide to

leave

get home

Mom REALIZED SOMETHING!

decide to

leave through the park

they go down the block

past the sch

ool

into the laundromat

into the laundromat

they go down the block

they will go through the park

they will go past t

he school

found it, whew!

They will get

home, whew!

looked and looked

they will decide to leave

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The above PDF page has all three of these pages.The pages below are just pictures, not PDFs.

These are both PDFs

we know they will go home again

Come back story: home to cave and back home.

Come Back story: home, laundromat, home, laundromat

home

home

cave

cave

home

homelaundromat

laundromathome

Knuffle Bunny

Going on a Bear Hunt

decide to go somewhere

have a reason to leave in a hurry

children

excitingrealisticstory

fantasy(pretend)

bear

stuffedanimal

in a city

in thecountry

darkness

daylight

hand-drawn sketchesand digital photography

Writing Frames,Rubrics and Word Banks

Writing frame for Bear Hunt like story. Click on the page to open and print. The writing pages PDF (middle page) is 7 pages long. With the cover and last page, there are 9 pages in all.

5 pages

1 pages

1 pages

Story frame for independent writers:

7 pages

Word List for a story like Knuffle Bunny:

Word List for a story like GOING ON A BEAR HUNT: