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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.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
23.
  • Story elements
  • Literary text
23a.
  • Plot
  • Narrative
  • Textual evidence
  • Major events
  • Sequence
23b.
  • Describe
  • Character
  • Traits
  • Feelings
  • Behaviors
23c.
  • Setting
  • Narrative
  • Textual evidence
23d.
  • Central message
  • Moral
23e.
  • Theme
  • Myths
  • Fables
  • Folktales
Knowledge:
23. Students know:
  • Literary text is a story that contains story elements, like a plot and characters.
23a.
  • Plot is the main events of a story (often referred to as the beginning, middle, and end of a story).
  • The sequence of events is the order in which the story takes place.
23b.
  • A story author provides descriptions of the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors.
23c.
  • Setting is when and where a story takes place.
23d.
  • A central message or moral is the lesson that is learned through the story or the one big idea of the story.
23e.
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
  • Myths, fables, and folktales are fictional pieces of text.
Skills:
23. Students are able to:
  • Identify the main story elements in a literary text, such as characters, settings, and plot.
23a.
  • Explain the major events of a story in order by using text evidence.
23b.
  • Describe characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors by using information from the text.
23c.
  • Describe the setting of a story by using evidence from the text.
23d.
  • Identify the central message or moral of a story using information from the text.
23e.
  • Identify the theme of a myth, fable, or folktale.
Understanding:
23. Students understand that:
  • Literary texts include story elements, and they can identify the various elements to better understand the text.
23a.
  • The plot is the main events of the story that happen in a particular sequence.
  • The plot can be explained by using words or phrases from the text.
23b.
  • Understanding each character's traits, feelings, and behaviors will help them better understand a story's plot.
  • They can learn about characters by carefully reading the story and describing the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors.
23c.
  • They can use information from the text to learn when and where the story takes place.
  • They can use the text to describe attributes of the setting.
23d.
  • Stories will often have a central message or moral that the author intended to share with readers.
23e.
  • Myths, fables, and folktales are often written to convey a particular theme or main message.
Tags: Beginning, End, Middle, Problem, Setting, Solution, Story Elements, Story Map
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Author: Jessica Byrd
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