That book contains a thematically related factual section to support cross-curricular learning.
This book is recommendable to use with children between 7 and 8 years old, therefore 3rd grade students could read it. Reading is used to learn new ideas in order to gain new knowledge and vocabulary, new experience, and to explore comprehend different perspectives.
Readers at early stages start to read longer and a little bit more complex text, with more words and the images lost the importance that these have in picture books.
Students are reading for a meaning, so they …show more content…
He lives with his family in Butterfly House. One day, the cat of her neighbor is lost and Alice, her owner, asks for help to Simon.
He goes looking for the cat asking to each neighbor about Smokey, the cat. Simon writes everything about the investigation on his notebook. Finally, the case is solved when Simon find Smokey.
The lost cat is a narrative story which purpose is resolving a complication, in this case, finds Smokey, the lost cat.
The book starts with an orientation where Simon, the main character present himself and describes the place where he lives. Simon narrates the complication of the story: Alice´s cat came to his house asking for her cat. But Simon gives her a solution offering him to help Alice to find Smokey.
A new problem become when Alice and Simon don´t find the cat after looking for it in their neighbors houses. Simon proposes a new solution, and therefore, the resolution of the story. It was looking for Smokey inside Alice's house due to she was the only neighbor that wasn´t be interviewed and her morning was a chaotic.
The reaction of the characters was really satisfactory after find Smokey in Alice´s house and Alice reflects about Simon´s actuation during that day, encouraging and congratulating him about his job as a