Walter Sawyer

Realistic fiction. This book is about what happens when a storm comes into town and the lights go out. The family all gets flashlights and made tents out of blankets. As they wait for the storm to pass they tell ghost stories, and when they fall asleep the storm is gone and the lights are back on.

When the lights go out, flashlights lead to a camp inside the
house.
■ Realistic fiction recount
■ First person plural
■ Past tense
■ Double-page illustration without text at the beginning
■ Chain structure: the last idea on one page becomes the link
with the next
■ All sentences begin with “when,” an adverbial clause of time,
making two-part sentences
■ Understanding sentence patterns
■ Developing fluency
■ Self-correcting, especially consistency of tense
■ Gathering show more scene-setting information from illustrations show less

is a child growing up with Literature and how hard it is for hem.
Source pierce College
age 4/5