Fiction Readers: Maddy's Mad Hair Day

Maddy’s Mad Hair Day is a humorous and realistic fiction story about Maddy trying to control her wild curly hair with ribbons and other hair accessories. She eventually just liked her wild hair! The story is narrated with illustrations. 

Maddy’s Mad Hair Day is a simple narrative story. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the story. Opportunities arise to discuss Maddy’s emotions in the illustrations with the text.

Readers develop vocabulary such as verbs (wore), adjectives (curly), double consonants (too), and compound words (today). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes to show possession (Maddy’s), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Maddy), exclamation marks, and commas.

This title is from the Fiction Readers series from Teacher Created Materials. Stimulate the imagination and promote creative thinking through real-world themes captured in entertaining stories.