Backyard Survivor

Backyard Survivor is a realistic narrative about two neighbour children who find themselves home alone after a mix up in communication.  They try to be backyard survivors until, happily, one of their mothers arrives home in time for lunch.  The story is told with dialogue and narrative.

The story has a problem-solution structure.  The text is composed of a variety of sentence types.  Illustrations support the text but not all events are illustrated.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, and ellipses are used.  Boldface and italic are used for emphasis.  The book concludes with a two-page spread explaining the characteristics of a narrative.

Some words may require clarification: survive, shrugged, mime, drilled, frothed.  Simile: flying like a bird. 

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