Mr. Magee's Goat

Mr. Magee’s Goat is a humorous, realistic fiction about Mr. Magee’s rowdy goats who go into Mrs. Jon’s backyard and eat her apples. Mr. Magee’s goats get into Mrs. Jon’s house and make a mess. She traps them in a small building and Mr. Magee brings them back home.

To begin, the characters and setting are introduced. This story is a narrative text with a straightforward structure of a clear beginning, a series of episodes, and an ending. Illustrations add detail, interest, and humour to the text and are found on each page. Callouts prompt prediction and allow students to make inferences.

There are a few prepositional phrases, indicating time, at the beginning of a sentence. To conclude, a correct and incorrect story sequence is shown. In addition, a Word Bank is offered with images to support each word.

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