Eva and Sadie and the Best Classroom EVER!
by Jeff Cohen (Author) and Elanna Allen (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Sadie is ready to start second grade, but her younger sister, Eva, hasn’t even been to kindergarten yet! Sadie knows it’s her duty as big sister to prepare Eva for school. But all this preparation makes Eva nervous—too much homework and no naptime, and how will she ever be able to buy her own lunch at school?
Snippet: Of course, I already know how to do all those things. But Eva doesn’t. And I don’t want her to feel nervous on her first day. That would be sad.
This means one thing. I’ve got a lot of work to do.
Six Traits Mini Lesson
Trait: Voice The pronoun I is in three of the six sentences on this page. Every other sentence has it.
Of course, I already know how to do all those things. But Eva doesn’t.
The first person voice is the one most people use when they talk. The person speaking uses the word I.
And I don’t want her to feel nervous on her first day. That would be sad.
So how can you tell which voice the STORY has? Look for quotation marks.
This means one thing. I’ve got a lot of work to do.
Every other sentence on this page has the word I, but there are NO quotation marks. This means that there is only one person talking on this page and that person is the narrator. There are no quotation marks on this page because this is a monologue, not a dialogue. It’s not a conversation, it’s narration. We are inside the main character’s head, hearing her thoughts. This is a first person story.
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