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Lois Podoshen

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5 Works 115 Members 4 Reviews

Works by Lois Podoshen

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Paco and his grandmother plant a small salad garden.

A boy and his grandmother look forward to eating food from
their garden, but a woodchuck gets there first.
■ Realistic fiction
■ Third person
■ Past tense
■ Cover illustration portrays hope rather than reality
■ Possessive apostrophe in title
■ Pictorial map of garden
■ Some repeated two-sentence pattern, but remainder has varied
structures
■ Ellipsis near sentence beginning and not at page turn
■ No text on final page, show more open-ended
■ Two adjectives for objects
■ Text ranges from one to four lines
■ Only one character speaks
■ Pronunciation guide on inside front cover
■ Explanatory note on inside back cover
■ Repetition of word for emphasis
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Introduces primary and secondary colors and the color wheel
through an artist painting yellow pictures.
■ Fiction narrative
■ First person
■ Present tense
■ General and specific within illustrations
■ Color words
■ Alternating sentence beginnings
■ Comma for series within sentence
■ Color wheel (diagram with caption)
Grandfather's candy store is full of sweet treats.

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Works
5
Members
115
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Rating
2.0
Reviews
4
ISBNs
4
Languages
1

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