Dad and the Cake

Dad and the Cake is a humorous, fictional story about kids who help their dad make a big cake for his birthday. When the cake is completed, it is placed in the pantry and ants are attracted to the sugar and crawl all over the cake. Dad tries to blow the ants of the cake with different machines but cake ends up blowing all over the backyard. His friends come to the house, and, instead of bringing a gift, give him a large cake.

Illustrations support interpretation and enhance enjoyment in this narrative text. Some illustrative text is used.

Some sentences begin with dependent clauses. Simple connectives such as and connect two ideas. To conclude, a comic strip is shown that retells the main events of the story. In addition, simple activities that include oral, written, and visual communication are presented in the Teacher’s Guide Notes.

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