Corduroy

Author: Don Freeman

Illustrator: Don Freeman

Genre: Modern Fantasy 

Freeman, Don. Corduroy. New York: Viking, 2014. Print.

Annotation

Corduroy is a teddy bear, displayed on a toy shelf in a department store. One day, a girl named Lisa goes to the department store with her mother and spots the bear. Lisa wants to buy him, but the mother doesn't want to spend money on Corduroy because there is a button missing from his overalls. After they leave the store, Corduroy decides to find the missing button himself and goes on a trip around the department store when it closes. Continue to read to find out what happens to Corduroy.

ELA Content Standards

Key Ideas and Details- Grade 2

3.) Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

How it Connects: Students can discuss how Corduroy responds when the mother won't let Lisa buy him, and how he responds when he finds out his button is missing along with the challenges he goes through to get his button back.

Craft and Structure- Grade 2

6.) Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

How it Connects: The teacher can read this story to the class and use different voices to emphasize the character feelings and traits in the story.

Tier 3 Vocabulary

department, spend, search

Classroom Usage

Small Groups: Students can split up into groups and discuss if they have ever lost something, and how it made them feel.

Differentiation
This book would be good for ELL, gifted, and dyslexic students because it is an easier read that would help work on comprehension.