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Car
Wash
WRITTEN
BY
Sandra Steen and Susan Steen
ILLUSTRATED
BY
G. Brian Karas
Steen,
Sandra and Susan. (2001). Car Wash. New
York: G P Putnam's Sons.
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"Close
hatch. Submarine. Going down. Deep.
Dark."
And they plunge into the
foamy sea of the car wash--octopus arms thromping windows,
seaweed creatures circling, tidal waves crashing, and
heat-breathing monsters whirling.
"Drip,
drip. Towel dry. Shiny car. Lunch time!"
Childhood imagination sends
a brother and sister through the depths of the sea in a car
wash only to end with irony when they spill food and have to
get the car washed again.
NOTE: Car Wash
documents how children's experiences vitally influence their
ability to comprehend. The story of Car Wash is not
understandable if children have no schema for an automated
car wash. Children best read and remember what they have had
opportunities to experience.
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Activities
for Students
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GRADE LEVELS: Pre-K
through 5
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CONTENT
CONNECTIONS:
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Reading
Writing
Art
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- Sequence.
The book begins and ends with a dirty car. Draw
a concept map (story web) sequentially in a
circle to relate the main events of the
book.
- Image
writing. Retell the story or write a summary
of the story by writing sentences to form the
shape of a car.
- Felt
board. Draw pictures from the story, and
glue velcro pieces on the back of each picture.
Retell the story in sequence by placing pictures
on the felt board.
- Choral
reading. Brainstorm together to create sound
effects for the actions of the story. Read the
story together and add the sound effects.
Consider tape recording the final product to
place in a reading center.
- Analogies.
Write analogy statements for several pages of
the book.
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A car wash is like the foamy sea
because...
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A car wash reminds me of an octopus
when...
- Point
of view. Discuss the point of view of this
story. List interesting phrases describing new
images in the story if told from the car's
perspective.
- Irony.
Discuss irony. Identify how the ending of the
story is ironic.
- Onomatopoeia.
1.
Identify all of the onomatopoeia examples in the
story. Create two more to add to other pages.
2.
Complete an Alphabet Time list of onomatopoeia
words.
3.
Develop a class book of illustrated onomatopoeia
examples. Try to think of one or more for each
letter of the alphabet.
- Senses
response. Draw and write a detail from the
story for each of the five
senses.
I
see...I hear...I touch...I taste...I
hear...
- Writing
extension. Write a first-person narrative
about riding to school on a bus or in another
vehicle. Use imagination and sound effects to
tell the story as viewed from inside the moving
vehicle.
- Art.
1.
Provide finger paint to create "car wash" style
illustrations.
2.
Use construction paper scraps to create collage
illustrations for scenes from the original story
or to illustrate the first-person narrative
completed in the previous writing extension
activity.
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