Chicken Food BIG BOOK

Chicken Food is a humorous fantasy about Mr. McGuire and his very demanding chicks.  Guided by Mrs. McGuire’s suggestions, Mr. McGuire goes to great lengths to concoct just the right food to please the chicks, with spectacular results.  The story is told in dialogue and narrative.

The story follows the pattern of problem-solution narrative.  A variety of sentence types are used.  Illustrations appear in text to support vocabulary.  Illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.  Bold face is used for emphasis.  Exclamation marks, quotation marks, commas, question marks, ellipses, and apostrophes are used.

The contractions what’s, that’s, and wasn’t are used.  Singular/plural pairs include chicken/chickens and weed/weeds.  The homonyms for/four and high/hi appear.  Interest words include wiggle, jiggle, munching, crunching, wriggle, squiggle, frantic, and wailed.

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