Spencer and Charlie

Spencer and Charlie is a narrative about a tall boy, Spencer, and his tiny, squeaky dog Charlie.  Spencer doesn’t like it when people laugh at Charlie, and after Charlie saves a fisherman’s life, no one does!  The story is told in dialogue and narrative.

The story has a problem solution structure.  The text is composed of a variety of sentence types.  Illustrations support the text but not all events are shown.  Speech balloons appear in art.  Dashes and ellipses are used to create drama.  A newspaper article recounts Charlie’s heroic rescue. The book concludes with a two-page spread that tells how to write a narrative.

Some words may require clarification: sniggered, mite-sized intruder, full flight, tousled, anxiety, apprehensively, frantically.  Metaphor: he was a sparky little sprout.

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