Birdwoman Interview

Birdwoman Interview is a humorous and realistic fiction interview with a woman who turned her home into a bird hospital. Birdwoman tells the reporter about how she has saved birds, where she keeps the birds, releases birds, what people say about her birds, and her name as Birdwoman. The story is an interview with some narration, questions, answers, and speech bubbles to show who is talking.

Birdwoman Interview is an interview written in questions and answers. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the graphics, style, and font as well as the information, layout, and design of interviews . There is an infographic at the end of the story outlining why people conduct interviews. There is an exemplar and procedure for conducting an interview. An activity on interviewing an interesting person and recording their response is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as nouns (helicopter), verbs (sing), and singular/plural (house/houses). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (didn’t). Focus on long and short vowel a and discuss base words (fallen). Look at suffix y (grumpy) and prefix un (untangle).

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