Axle the Freeway Cat

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Title:

 Axle the Freeway Cat

URL:

 https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/icdl.la.rv.genre.axle/axle-the-freeway-cat/

Content Source:

 PBS
Type: Interactive/Game

Overview:

Childhood is a time for laughing, learning, and playing with friends. Every day all around the world children meet and make new friends. In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, a lonely cat lives in a car with a kitchen on the dashboard. He delights in his work cleaning the highways. When he helps someone with car trouble in a traffic jam he makes a new friend. They then enjoy creating music together with a car horn. Author and Illustrator—Thacher Hurd.

 

This book highlights the many important aspects of making friends and being a good friend.

See the three supplemental assets for detailed teaching activities. The asset titled, "Forever Friendship- Making Friends Story Map," most closely aligns with the Alabama Course of Study.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
23. Identify the main story elements in a literary text.

a. Explain the plot of a narrative, using textual evidence to list the major events in sequence.

b. Describe the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors in a story.

c. Describe the setting of a narrative, using textual evidence.

d. Identify the central message or moral of a story.

e. Identify the theme in myths, fables, and folktales.
Tags: Beginning, End, Middle, Problem, Setting, Solution, Story Elements, Story Map
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Author: Jessica Byrd