Sailor Sam and the Captain

Sailor Sam and the Captain is a humorous story about Sailor Sam having difficulty running the ship. The Captain tells him he will need to learn how to be a sailor. When the Captain blows out the candles on her birthday cake, cake is blown all around the room. Sailor Sam jokes that she will need to learn how to blow out the candles on a cake.

To begin, the characters and setting are introduced. 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, an action/consequence chart is shown and provides a space for student to fill in one consequence. In addition, a Word Bank is offered with written and visual text.

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