Aunt Tabitha's Gift

Aunt Tabitha’s Gift is a humorous narrative about a little girl named Anna who gets a goliath tarantula as a gift from her Aunt Tabitha. The book also discusses text connections, planning a narrative, and features of a narrative.

A variety of sentence types is used.  The story is told in the first-person.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features such as metaphors and similes, and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as questioning, predicting, and inferring.

The text uses descriptive language.

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