Fiction Readers: My Life as a Bee
9781433354830
My Life as a Bee is a humorous and fictional animal fantasy story about a bee recounting the best and worst days of his life. The bee recounts the flying lessons he took and how it became the worst day…but then the best day! The story is narrated with dialogue, illustrations, captions, labels, and illustrative text.
My Life as a Bee is a simple narrative story designed to look like a photo album with pictures, labels, and symbols. Illustrations match the text. Draw students’ attention to the visual features including the layout and design of the photo album as well as the illustrative text, captions, symbols, and labels. Opportunities arise to discuss the purpose and structure of a photo album.
Readers develop vocabulary such as transitional words (first, second, third) verbs (crashed), and adjectives (nasty). Opportunities arise to discuss apostrophes within contractions (wouldn’t), capital letters at the beginning of sentences and names (Grandpa), exclamation marks, subordinate clauses, and commas. Focus on suffix ful (colourful).
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.
