Ladybug Nominee #3

This Ladybug Award nominated book is called Birds by Kevin Henkes. Second grade listened to the story and made these connections to the text:

Text-to-self connection: Shyann saw at least thirty turkeys and some bluejays.

Text-to-text conection: At home, Sophie has a bird book with many more kinds of birds. Autumn connects this book to Those Darn Squirrels because both squirrels and birds live in trees and because the squirrels were eating bird seed from the backyard feeders.

Text-to-world connection: The imaginative part about birds, when they flew, leaving marks all over the sky reminded us of jets leaving condensation trails (contrails) as they fly across the sky!

We wonder how author Kevin Henkes pronounces his last name. Garrett suggested we try to Skype him to ask - but we couldn't find his Skype address. :-(