Ice Cream for Kids and Cats

Ice Cream for Kids and Cats is a humorous, realistic story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.  The ice cream shop owner has made a lot of ice cream and decides to give free ice cream to kids.  The cats want a sweet treat, too, but the owner say no.  When the ice cream machine overflows, the cats get their wish.  The story is told in dialogue and simple narrative that is close to oral language.

All of the sentences are short and similar in structure.  Illustrations match the text directly and add information.  Signs in the ice cream show serve as incidental print.  The main character’s name is capitalized.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Bold face, enlarged type, and exclamation marks are used for emphasis.  Ellipses are used to indicate exaggerated pauses.  Onomatopoeic words are printed in interesting fonts.  The book concludes with a collection of signs for display in the shop window.

The high frequency words are made, all, and with.  Interest words include meow, whirr, and bang.  The positional words are in, on, and over.

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