Friday, June 29, 2012
Picture Book #19 Silent Movie
Author: Avi
Title: Silent Movie
Illustrator: C. B. Mordan
Readability: 2.4
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Have faith and destiny will always follow through
Character: Papa, Mama, Gustave, A Thief, A friend from
the Old Country, Bartholomew Bunting
Award(s) date of publication: 2003
Publisher: An Anne Schwartz Book
ISBN: 0-689-84145-0
Summary:
Silent Movie is a story about a family fleeing Sweden to
go to the “Promise Land” of America. The
first person to go over to the The Promise Land was papa in 1909. Later Mama
and Gustave came to join Papa, once they had made the journey and arrived they
looked for Papa around the dock but could not find them and Papa the same. Mama
and Gustave ponder on was coming to America really a good idea. After three
days they were out of money and had to depend on begging to have money and to
eat. During this time there were thieves who took from the poor to make himself
rich. An old friend found Mama and Gustave and took them to shelter. Mama began
working getting paid a dollar a week. Around the same time movies were being
made and it only took five days. A man
by the name of Bartholomew Bunting was a famous movie director and was looking
for a child actor for his action movie. One day when Bunting sees Gustave he
says that he was the perfect kid for the movie. He offered Gustave a dollar a
day to be in his movie. The movie was a hit and was offered to be in the next movie
for a hundred dollars a week. Papa sees Gustave in the movie and runs down to
the studio were the movie were recorded and was reunited with his son and his
wife. They became the new American Family.
How to use in the classroom:
Silent Movie can be a very fun book to use across the
curriculum in the classroom. Students could use this book in English and
Reading by creating their own stories with only pictures then on the back of
the pictures right the words to the story. With older grades teachers can have
students use technology to record and tell a story.
Picture Book #17 Dave the Potter
Author: Laban Carrick Hill
Title: Dave the Potter
Illustrator: Bryan Collier
Readability: 9.4
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Work with your hands will leave a legacy forever
Character: Dave
Award(s) date of publication: Caldecott Illustrator Awards, Caldecott Honor Book, Orbis Pictus Recommended 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-10731-0
Summary:
Dave the Potter is a set of poems about a man who was an
artist, poet, and also a slave. Different pieces of pots and dirt meant
something different to Dave. The book is a story told by poems explaining how
Dave would work with his hands day to day and how he would put in the poems
into the pots. At the end of the story the author would tell stories about Dave
and gives Reponses on how people appreciated Dave’s work
How to use in the classroom:
Using the story to
inspire the children I would have them bring a piece of pottery to class but
create their own poems and do a DIY project and have the poem on the piece of
pottery. I would have students write how a hobby they have inspires them to
keep pushing on
Picture Book #16 Night Boat to Freedom
Author: Margot Theis Raven
Title: Night Boat to Freedom
Illustrator: E. B. Lewis
Readability: 920L
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Working through fear and following your hear
Character: N/A
Award(s) date of publication: 2006
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0-374-31266-4
Summary:
Night Boat to Freedom is set in Kentucky on a Plantation. Granny
Judith had raised Christmas John since birth. One day Granny Judith ask Christmas John to take Molly in the boat
and meet the man at the Ohio Station . When Granny Judith was taken from her
home in Africa she was leered from her
home in Africa by a beautiful red piece of cloth. Therefore she was wearing
when they arrived to freedom upon Christmas John return home he would tell
Granny Judith what color the passagener was wearing. Granny Judith would take
each color and make a quilt out of each color of cloth, wishing one day it
would cross the waters. After taking many to freedom one day Granny Judith
decided it was time for Christmas John to go to freedom for himself. Christmas John
wanted to take Granny but she did not want to go but Christmas John would not
leave her. He turned back around and took Granny Judith with him. The blood
hounds were on their track the whole way but they made it together. Christmas
John looked back with admiration in his heart for the boat that brought so many
to freedom.
How to use in the classroom:
For the young
students I would have them design the outfit they would wear to freedom. I
would have older students write a story from Christmas John perspective but
also from the slave’s perspective describing how they felt but also what they
saw. Also for younger students I would have them take the colors they decided
they would wear and make a class quilt of freedom.
Picture Book #15 A Drop of Water (Orbis Pictus Award Winner)
Author: Walter Wick
Title: A Drop of Water: A book of
Science and Wonder
Illustrator: Walter Wick
Readability: 5.4
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Informational
Theme: Water can do many things
Character: N/A
Award(s) date of publication: Robert F. Sibert; 1997
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Summary:
This book deals
with the different characteristics of water and what water can do. The book
deals with water vapor, water elastic surface, how steel floats and why the
water waves, why when in water the paintbrush is in the water it spreads out then comes back together. This book explains the
different definitions that comes along with water such as adhesion, capillary
attraction, to name a few. Soap bubbles, bubble shapes, and molecules in motion
to name a few. Throughout the book there are mind blowing pictures of water and
what it can do.
How to use in the classroom:
This book would be
a great to use along with the text book.
The students can break down different of the book to develop their own
understanding about water. Also, Walter Wick has different Science experiments
for students to do in the back of the book that would be great do with
students. For an English students could do a writing activity imagining they
were a water drop and the things they see during the day.
Picture Book #14 Balloons Over Broadway (Caldecott Honor Winner)
Author: Melissa Sweet
Title: Balloons Over Broadway
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Readability: 5.4
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Biography/ Informational
Theme: Hardwork will always pay off
Character: Anthony “Tony” Frederick Sarg, R.H. Macy
Award(s) date of publication: Caldecott Honor Winner, 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Summary:
Balloons over Broadway is the true story of the marionette maker
from London who moved to New York City for the Tony Sarg Marionettes to begin
performing on Browadway. When R. H. Macy’s
heard about the marionettes they decide to ask him to make puppets based on the
holiday storybook stories and make them move for the windows for the holiday
season. Then Macy’s decide they wanted to have a huge parade for all the
immigrants to celebrate the American holiday like they do in the native
countries. Since the Thanksgiving parade was such a success with made costumes
and built horse drawn floats, and Macy’s even arranged to bring in bears,
elephants, and camels from Central Park Zoo. Tony tried to replace the animals
with puppets with something that was strong enough to hold up in bad weather
yet enough to move up and down the streets. He used rubber material from a
blimp company out of Ohio. He used the idea from Indonesia rod puppets and put
the rods on the puppets and made them come to life. The next year he decided
that he wanted the puppets to be controlled for the bottom instead of the
top. He filled the balloons with air and
helium. He tied them down with sandbags the night before the next day the
balloons filled the air. The balloons moved down the street ending in front of Macy’s
at Tony’s Wondertown windows. It was
said that it was a parade New Yorkers would never forget. From that day on the
sidewalks of New York are filled for the Macy’s famous parade every
Thanksgiving morning.
How to use in the classroom:
I think it would
be great for students to do a webquest over the Macy’s day parade. Finding which balloons are the favorite for
the world, which parade was the largest, and other facts about the parade. Then
I would have the students make their own puppets or even do different science experiments
dealing with different types of air.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Chapter book #8 It's a Fiesta, Benjamin
Title: It's a Fiesta, Benjamin
Illustrator: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Readability: 2.3
Genre: Chapter Book
SubGenre: Diversity and Realistic
Theme:
Character: Benjamin, Adam, Sarah, Anna, Eric, Thomas, Senora Sanchez, Mrs. Halfpenny, Ms. Munoz
Award(s) and date of publication: 1998
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 0-8368-2054-1
Summary:
Use in the classroom:
Chapter Book #7 The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Author: Sarah
Ellis
Title: The
Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Illustrator: Bruno
St-Aubin
Readability:
5.1
Genre: Chapter
Book
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Theme: Follow your heart and you can achieve
anything you believe in
Character: Jack (OtherJack), Lady Duff, School Master
Bane, Dr. Keen, Mr. Ledger, Cook, a herdsman, Abe, Lou, The Mayor of Aberbog
Award(s)
date of publication: Mr. Christie's Book Award and the IODE Violet
Downey Book Award;2002
Publisher: Groundwood book Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 0-88899-529-6
Summary:
The story starts
off in a classroom with OtherJack (his name because when he arrived to the
school there was already a child named Jack there) watching his classmates
getting grilled for not knowing the answer to School Master Bane questions
about snow. In the middle of Mr. Bane question there was a knock on the door
requesting OtherJack presence in Dr. Keen office, the head master of
Opportunities School for Orphans and foundlings. Since OtherJack was twelve he
was able to make the decision to either stay in school or go out and learn a
trade. Jack was offered an apprenticeship working for Mr. Ledger working as one
of his bookkeepers. When Jack began to work for Mr. Ledger the numbers drove
him crazy. When he was almost done Jack began to eavesdrop on a near by
co-workers conversation and was startled by Mr. Ledger and spilled ink over his
book of numbers. After that Mr. Ledger told him that he was worthless, to never
come back, and Jack owed him eleven weeks worth of wages.
Upon Jack’s return
to school he laid in the bed and got the bright idea that he should run away to
the sea to see what the Cook always talked about. Jack did knowing what could
happen if were to get caught. He took a shirt and used it a bundle and decided
to run away at dawn. As he ran away he could her the hooves of horses and
jumped into bushes to hide but once he came out the horse returned and Jack had
to hide in a flock of sheep. The herdsmen name was Gabriel and he called Jack
Bleatincheat another name for a goat. Once he knew that Jack was good he told
him not to go north because that’s the way they people looking for him was
going.
The next morning a
man traveling by the name of Abe saw Jack and asked did he want a ride to the
fair. Not knowing what a fair was Jack decided that he would take the ride
anyway. Once he arrived in town he thanked Abe for the ride and began to look
around, he saw a loud girl, name Lou, yelling about buns. Lou introduces
herself to Jack and asked him what did he do and of course he did nothing and
had no money for a bun. As he was sitting down a young girl asked Jack what was
he selling, he answer the girl and said a whim for an apple. Next Jack sold a
thought to a woman for a penny and was able to buy a bun. He now had the title
of Patch Minder. Later that day Lou found him a job with a Ferrier holding his
horse while he was putting on their new shoes.
The next morning
Jack was selling his thoughts and the Mayor of Aberbog appear and said that his
thoughts should not be sold and that his thoughts would just make problem arise
in Aberbog. That night the mayor held a meeting and decided that Jack should be
thrown in jail for selling his thoughts. At that moment Jack became a fugitive,
Gideon, a Miller, took Jake to his home were they threw Jack a party. Gideon
allowed Jack to stay at his house that night. He fed Jake, gave him clothes to
sleep in even offered Jack an apprenticeship with him. The next morning Jake
decided that he would not accept the offer instead he decided to take his
thoughts and continue to travel seaside.
Use in the
classroom:
This book would be
a great book to use in a literature circle for students in the fourth or fifth
grade. The main character in this book is a twelve-year-old boy in which the
students would be able to relate to. The themes of hardwork and perseverance
would be great for the students to be able to pull out of this book and relate
it back to there everyday lives. There are many words in this book that
students may have to look up and enlarge their vocabulary with. Teachers could incorporate
this book into math lesson with heading lectures with bookkeeping and balance
checkbooks as well.
Chapter Book #6 The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
Author: Tony
DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
Title: The Spiderwick Chronicles:
The Field Guide
Illustrator: Tony DiTerlizzi and Dan Potash
Readability: 3.1
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Fantasy
Theme: Curiosity could kill the cat, Magic, Moving to a new place is not always bad
Character: Jared Grace, Simon Grace, Mallory Grace,
Award(s) date of publication: 2003
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers
ISBN: 978-0-689-85936-6
Summary:
The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide is
the first part of a three series tale. Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace moved into
their Mom’s old house due to their dad leaving and Jared getting into trouble
at school. The house was very old and looked like multiple shacks stacked upon
each other. Jared was the most ungrateful out of the three children
understanding why they had to move into the house but not wanting to. As the
children begin to unpack the car and bring their belongings into the house
Jared stopped at the doorway and called for his mom but received no answer just
heard rattles in the walls. His sister Mallory and his brother Simon said it
was probably just a squirrel.
Once they began to
unpack their mom stayed in a room, Mallory had her own room, and the boys
shared a room. Simon had many pets and Jared could not sleep well due to all
the scratching and noises from the tanks around the room. Suddenly their sister was telling them to
wake up to see what the sounds were. Once they found the place where they were
hearing the sounds they listened closely and then saw a weird object. The
removed the objects and Jared crawled in the dumbwaiter and rode it up to a
room that they had never seen before. Jared found a poem with a mysterious
saying and as soon as he finish reading it their mother returned from the
store. Then he heard ticking and another letter appeared. After Jared had told everyone
about the note Simon believed him although Mallory did not. When Mallory woke
up the next morning her hair was knotted to her brass headboard and there were
bruises on her arms. Later Jared went exploring looking for another way to get
to the room he followed the riddle he found on the latter. He discovered a
chest with a hidden compartment, in this compartment was brown leather book
that said Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around
You. It was full of watercolor sketches;
this book was full of information about faeries.
Jared began
reading the book; it talked a lot about catching boggart. Jared began to try to
catch this boggart, while preparing the kitchen to catch the boggart his mother
called out to him and told him to go to bed. When Jared was awaken the next
morning his mother told him to get a broom and begins to clean the kitchen. The
boggart had attack the kitchen and there was stuff everywhere! In the freezer Simon found both of his
tadpoles, Jared was immediately yelled at by their mother, after cleaning the
mess their mother said to Jared if had another outburst she was taking him to
see someone.
Jared and his siblings hung up a small house
for the boggart to live in and stop messing with them. Once the house was hung
the house Simon said they should leave a note, then Jared saw a watercolor
painting of a man and little girl. Mallory wrote a note telling the boggart
that they were sorry for messing up its first house and hope he like the new
one, and hoped he would not pinch them anymore. The story ends with the kids
going up stairs and finding a little person that resembles a mouse who tells
them to throw the book away.
Use in the classroom:
This is a great
book to introduce a class into fantasy literature. This story shows the
characters going and trying to solve a problem and see the story unfold with
each page turn. Students could evaluate each character; decide which character
they would want to be. Students could also make up stories on how they would
catch the boggart or describe the house in their own words.
Chapter Book #5 The Magic Box
Author: Barbara Brenner
Title: The Magic Box
Illustrator: Manuel Boix
Readability: 2.9
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Realistic
Theme: Do not forget about your daily life because you find something new.
Character: Towns People, Marvin, Mayor
Award(s) date of publication: 1998
Publisher: A Bryon Preiss Book
ISBN: 0-8368-1764-8
Summary:
There was a small tourist town in a valley that was very busy and had travelers and peddlers passed through all the time. One day there was a rock slick and rocks rolled onto the roads and train tracks. Since the rocks cover the trained tracks the people of the town could not come and go and they knew nothing what was going on outside of their town. As the years passed grass grew over the roads and train tracks and they did not see travelers and peddlers anymore. Sadly they did not know about jet planes, television, computers or the new kind of toothpaste. They were still happy, they read books, made quilts, and still tended to their beans. They smiled and did not mind people did not visit anymore. One day a cargo plane was lost in a snow storm drop of its cargo, in the middle of town, to save gas.
Once the town’s people saw the box, everyone gathered around it in town square. They whispered trying to figure out what was in the box, thinking what was inside could hear their whispers. A young boy named Marvin was the one that finally said open it. The mayor was the one who finally opened the box and the crowd was quiet. They guessed what it was, the thing that looked like a mirror, a table, and even said it was another box or a safe. Once Marvin found the electric plug they plugged it in the mayor’s office and began to watch the box, known as a television. When they turned the knobs and the T.V. came on they thought it was magic, a magical gift.
Slowly the town’s people began to change; they would watch the T.V every morning. They watch cartoons, game shows, singing, crying, eating, and chewing, they did not know what it was but they watched all the time. The only person that did not watch the box was Marvin. They watched so much they had picnics, slept on cots, and made the room home. Since everyone stayed and never left and did not think to clean up the floor became nastier and sticker. Sadly the normal life of the town’s people was not normal anymore. They forgot about the crops, playing ball, and even reading. One day the Mayor was sick of what she saw in her town and told the people she wishes the box never came. Marvin tells people that the box is just a machine. He tells the Mayor the box is not really magic just a little magic. He then turns the television off and the town began to turn back to normal. When the town people decided they wanted to come inside they would turn on the magic box.
Use in the classroom:
This book would be great to introduce children to the realization that there was not always television. They could write about what they did if they could not watch television. I would even challenged them to not use it for a full a week and write what they would do instead.
Picture #13 Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter
Author: Diane Stanley
Title: Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter
Illustrator: Diane Stanley
Readability: 5.5
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Fantasy
Theme: Do not be greedy ( money and treasure wise) and always share and care about others.
Character: Hope, Rumpelstiltskin, Meredith, The King, The townspeople, guards, and the grannies.
Award(s) date of publication: 1997
Publisher: Morrow Junior Books
ISBN: 0-688-14327-X
Summary:
This is a funny fantasy story from the old traditional story Rumpelstiltskin’s. It follows the same plot about the Miller who told the king he had a daughter that could spin straw into gold and Rumpelstiltskin would come and spin the gold for her but in this story instead of marrying the King she married him. Rumpelstiltskin takes the straw and builds a gold ladder and escapes from the castle to the country side were they got married and lived. They had a daughter together who would take pieces of gold coins and go into town to buy things for her parents. One day when the king heard about these coins and had his guards wait for the girl to buy something else so he could kidnap her and bring her to his castle. The king demanded her to tell him how she did it and she said her grandfather planted the gold and it grew. Once fall approached and things beginning to grow, the king went around the kingdom looking for his gold but there was not any just food. The next day Rumpelstilskin’s daughter took the king to town and gave all the grannies yellow yarn and gold needles to produce gold. Once again the king did not receive gold in return just saw everyone in yellow clothes. Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter told the King there was no gold but his people will have warm clothes all winter. The grannies brought the king presents and gifts and new clothes as well. He was excited she told him to remove his guards and the crocodiles too because the people loved him. He did just that and married her too. The King built them a large house; the people never went cold or hungry, and the story end by telling Rumpelstiltskin’s daughters name Hope.
Use in the classroom:
I would personally use this book in the classroom to help children understand how to treat others. I would have them make a list of what they would do to make the people love them if they were the King of this village. I would also ask had they ever met someone that was greedy like the king and ask what would they have done if they were Hope.
Picture Book #12 The Pea Blossom
Author: Amy Lowry Poole
Title: The Pea Blossom
Illustrator: Amy Lowry Poole
Readability: 2.2
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Fantasy
Characters: Five peas, A boy, A girl and her mother.
Characters: Five peas, A boy, A girl and her mother.
Theme: Everything happens for a reason and everyone has their own destiny.
Award(s) date of publication: 2005
Publisher: Holiday House, Inc.
ISBN: 0-8234-1864-2
Summary:
The Pea Blossom is an Eastern folktale retold by Amy Lowry Poole. This story is set in Beijing, China and was written and illustrated on rice paper. There were five peas inside a shell that thought the world was green because that was all they knew. As the seasons changed the peas began to grow and would talk about what each one would do, all except the fifth pea. One day as the pea shell began to turn yellow it was ripped open by a boy. He took the first pea and put it in his pea shooter and shot it in the air, he was finally going to the sun until it dropped in the gutter and was eaten by a pigeon. The second pea was tossed in a well and swallowed by a frog. The third and fourth peas were put in rice for the emperor. The fifth pea flew into the sky and landed on a window sill. Little did the fifth pea know that he landed on a window sill of a poor woman with a very sick little girl. As winter came the pea went to sleep under moss and leaves. The mother feared that the daughter would die soon and moved her bed away from the window. Once spring arrived the little girl, who was still weak, spouted the green tendrils from the pea plant. The little girl decided that the pea would start her own garden. As the pea began to grow so did the little girls strength and faith. A month later the girl was able to sit up as the plant began to blossom with blue flowers. As the plant blossom small pea shells formed and the girl became healthy again. The fifth and smallest pea was happy and content and knew that what was meant to happen.
Use in the classroom:
I loved the moral of this story! Everyone has their own planned for the life and do not be anxious for anything. Teachers could have students write on those topics. They could write a continuation story on the other peas. Teachers could even use this story during the time plant life is being taught in Science and student could grow their own peas and write a story where the peas will go after they are grown.
Picture Book #11 The Upside Down Boy
Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Title: The Upside Down Boy
Illustrator: Elizabeth Gomez
Readability: 2.9
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Theme: With time in patience you will find your place
Primary and Secondary Characters: Mama, Papi, Ms. Sampson, Amanda, Ms. Andasola, Juan(ito)
Award(s) and date of publication: 2000
Award(s) and date of publication: 2000
Publishing Company: Children's Books Press
ISBN number: 0-89239-162-6
Summary and how the book will be used with students:
This book is about a boy named Juan who moved from the mountains to Mrs. Andasola's house to go to school in the city. Juan could not believe that he was beginning to start a new life in a new place as the seasons began to change. When he arrived to school there was no one in the hallways and no one on the playground. When he arrived to his classroom and sat down at his desk he stuck his nose in his brown paper bag and the students laughed. Juan felt so out of place. When the school bell rung for the first time Juan ate his lunch instead of going to recess. He had to ask his new friend Amanda what was recess. When he was supposed to go to lunch he went to the baseball field to play. He felt so upside down doing everything opposite of then the rest of his classmates. He finally found what he was good at when it came to music class. Once Juan was introduce to music the transition to school became easier. He found his niche, he even conducted the choir for the class performance at open house.
This would be a great book for teachers to use when talking about different cultures or for ELL students because the book is written in Spanish and English. Teachers could connect this to writing by having students write about a time when they felt out of place or when they had to have help or help someone transition to a new place. Teachers could even teach students how to count in Spanish as well.
This book is about a boy named Juan who moved from the mountains to Mrs. Andasola's house to go to school in the city. Juan could not believe that he was beginning to start a new life in a new place as the seasons began to change. When he arrived to school there was no one in the hallways and no one on the playground. When he arrived to his classroom and sat down at his desk he stuck his nose in his brown paper bag and the students laughed. Juan felt so out of place. When the school bell rung for the first time Juan ate his lunch instead of going to recess. He had to ask his new friend Amanda what was recess. When he was supposed to go to lunch he went to the baseball field to play. He felt so upside down doing everything opposite of then the rest of his classmates. He finally found what he was good at when it came to music class. Once Juan was introduce to music the transition to school became easier. He found his niche, he even conducted the choir for the class performance at open house.
This would be a great book for teachers to use when talking about different cultures or for ELL students because the book is written in Spanish and English. Teachers could connect this to writing by having students write about a time when they felt out of place or when they had to have help or help someone transition to a new place. Teachers could even teach students how to count in Spanish as well.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Picture Book #10 The Field Beyond The Outfield
Title: The Field Beyond The Outfield
Illustrator: Mark Teague
Readability Score: 2.8
Genre: Picture Book
SubGenre: Fantasy and Realistic
Theme: Everyone will have their time to shine, in their own light and way.
Award(s) and date of Publication: 1992
Publishing Company: Scholastic
ISBN: 0-4439-81215
Summary and how it can be used in the classroom
This is story about a boy named Ludlow Grebe who had complained about monsters that lived in his closet and the sharks that swam around outside when it rained to his parents. Therefore his parents thought it would be a great idea to make him play a sport to get Ludlow mind of the scary things happening around him. His parents signed him up to play baseball. Ludlow loved playing baseball and he put all his time and energy in to studying the game. When Ludlow was finally asked to play in the outfield he was ready. Ludlow said a good ballplayer was already to play in the game. The coach and players told him to play far back in the outfield until Ludlow was almost in the weeds. He was so far back that he was in another baseball field one that was filled with monsters. Since Ludlow was a good baseball player he watched as they played until he was flown to the batters mound. When he stepped up he swung and made a home run. Everyone cheered and then returned to his own game, after the game his parents said he would get more playing time next time. Only if they really knew he did get some playing time, after that day he did not complain about the monsters he was just ready for the next day to begin, because a good ball player is always ready.
Teachers could use this book to introduce their students into fantasy literature. Even have children talk about times they had daydream about being in a different place other then the place they were when they were day dreaming.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Picture Book #9 The Man Who Tricked a Ghost
Author: Laurence Yep
Title: The Man Who Tricked a Ghost
Illustrator: Isadore Seltzer
Readability: 4.9
Genre: Picture Book
SubGenre: Fantasy, Diversity
Theme: Do not trust everything you hear and see
Primary & Secondary Characters: Sung, his friend, and a ghost
Award(s) and date of Publication: 1993
Publishing company: Bridgewater Books
ISBN: 0-8167-3030- X
Summary and How I would use it in the classroom.
A brave young man named Sung was not afraid of anything because he said they were all created from the same thing therefore they are cousins. One day he went and visited his good friend until night fall. His friend tried to convience him to stay because people who walk through the forest a night usually disappear. Of course Sung being so brave decided that he was still going to walk through the night as he walked through the night he actually ran into the warrior who was actually the ghost. Sung then tricked the ghost to thinking he was a ghost, he then aquired all the ghost secrets, and even found out what he was afraid of. After finding out this information he used against the ghost and once they made it into the town he had the ghost captured.
This would be a great book for teachers to use to talk about conflict and resoultion. Teachers could have students write about if they were Sung how would they have tricked the ghost differently, who they have spat on him earlier, or would they have told early he was actually sung.
A brave young man named Sung was not afraid of anything because he said they were all created from the same thing therefore they are cousins. One day he went and visited his good friend until night fall. His friend tried to convience him to stay because people who walk through the forest a night usually disappear. Of course Sung being so brave decided that he was still going to walk through the night as he walked through the night he actually ran into the warrior who was actually the ghost. Sung then tricked the ghost to thinking he was a ghost, he then aquired all the ghost secrets, and even found out what he was afraid of. After finding out this information he used against the ghost and once they made it into the town he had the ghost captured.
This would be a great book for teachers to use to talk about conflict and resoultion. Teachers could have students write about if they were Sung how would they have tricked the ghost differently, who they have spat on him earlier, or would they have told early he was actually sung.
Picture Book #8 Seven Blind Mice (Caldecott Award Winner)
Author: Ed Young
Title: Seven Blind Mice
Illustrator: Ed Young
Readability: 3.3
Genre: Picture Book
SubGenre: Traditional
Theme: Everyone has a piece of the big picture, you just have to figure out what piece you have.
Primary & Secondary Characters: Seven mice (red, yellow, blue, purple, green, orange, and white) an Elephant
Award(s) and date of Publication: Caldecott Winner, 1992
Publishing company: Philomel Books
ISBN: 0-399-2261-8
Summary and How I would use it in the classroom.
This book is like an old Indian Fable retold and Illustrated by Ed Young. These seven mice discovers that their is something in their pond and set out to figure out what this something. The first mouse says that it was a pillar in the pond, the second mouse said it was a snake, the third mouse said it was spear, the fourth mouse said it was a cliff, the fifth mouse said it was a fan, and the sixth mouth said it was a rope. On the seventh day the last mouse, the white mouse, put it all together on the last day. He went back and forth, side to side, and found out that the something was an elephant.
This book would be great to use in Kindergarten and first grade classroom. Every time a mouse goes to find out what the something is it on a particular day and a different color mouse. It would be a great idea for students to make something and place it in a box and have students touch the creation and write a sentence for each guess. Students could also write about time they had to work with someone else to find a solution to a problem.
This book is like an old Indian Fable retold and Illustrated by Ed Young. These seven mice discovers that their is something in their pond and set out to figure out what this something. The first mouse says that it was a pillar in the pond, the second mouse said it was a snake, the third mouse said it was spear, the fourth mouse said it was a cliff, the fifth mouse said it was a fan, and the sixth mouth said it was a rope. On the seventh day the last mouse, the white mouse, put it all together on the last day. He went back and forth, side to side, and found out that the something was an elephant.
This book would be great to use in Kindergarten and first grade classroom. Every time a mouse goes to find out what the something is it on a particular day and a different color mouse. It would be a great idea for students to make something and place it in a box and have students touch the creation and write a sentence for each guess. Students could also write about time they had to work with someone else to find a solution to a problem.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Picture Book #7 Hondo & Fabian (Caldecott Award Winner)
Author: Paul McCarty
Title: Hondo & Fabian
Illustrator: Paul McCarty
Readability: 1.4 Interest Level PreK
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Fiction
Theme:
Primary
and Secondary Characters: Hondo, Fabian, Fred
Award(s) and publication date: Caldecott Honor Book 2003, 2002
Award(s) and publication date: Caldecott Honor Book 2003, 2002
Publishing
Company:
ISBN
number: 9780312367473
Summary
and how the book will be used with students:
Hondo and Fabian is a very simple picture book. It tells the story of a dog and a cat and what they do during the day. Fabian stays at home to play with the baby, while Hondo goes to the beach with his friend Fred. They both enjoy their day, eat, and then goes to sleep.
Picture Book #6 The Lemonade Club
Author: Patricia Polacco
Title: The Lemonade Club
Illustrator:
Readability; Fifth Grade
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Theme: Friendship and courage.
Primary and Secondary Characters: Traci, Marilyn, and Miss Wichelman
Award(s) and year published:2007
Award(s) and year published:2007
Publishing Company: Philomel Books
ISBN number:978-0-399-24540-4
Summary and how the book will be used with students:
This story is about two best friends named Marilyn and Traci, who go to school together and then begins to realize that their close dear friend is becoming skinny, does not eat as much anymore, and begins to wear a head scarf to school each day. Before this was found out Traci and Marilyn always hung out together, Traci loved to hear Marilyn play the piano. Traci did not know what she wanted to do but she new she wanted to help people. They were both in the fifth grade together in Miss Wichelman's class. Miss Wichelman always taught them when life gives you a lemon or two just add water and sugar and you will have lemonade.
A few weeks later Traci was informed by Mairlyn's mom that she had leukemia. Miss Wichelman informed the class the next day, the class sat back and stared because they did not what to say or do. Traci visited Mairlyn everyday, she was there when she started chemo and her hair began to fall. One day Miss Wichelman stopped by to check on Mairlyn, she was really down in spirit thinking she would never playy piano again. Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn she had to get better so she could attend her wedding and she wanted her to wear yellow dress and they were going to make lemonade out of lemons. Just when she thought she was depressed andalone she found out not just her friends was there to help her fight her battle with leuikema but her whole fifth grade class. When she retuned back to class everyone had on hats just like her. Most importantly they shaved their heads just like her. Even Miss Wichelman shaved her head. Later that day Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn that she too knew how she felt because she had breast cancer. A few months later she was married and there the girls were in their yellow dress ready to make some delicious lemonade
This would be a great book to use in the classroom to introduce sickness and how to deal with it in the classroom. This book could also be used to help talk about strong friendship bounds or be used while talking about different character traits. I think it would be great to use lemons and lemonade as the center of a math lesson as well. I could also take lemons and write different adjectives own it and make lemonade with good adjectives and bad showing that it all taste the same, just depends on how you look at it.
This story is about two best friends named Marilyn and Traci, who go to school together and then begins to realize that their close dear friend is becoming skinny, does not eat as much anymore, and begins to wear a head scarf to school each day. Before this was found out Traci and Marilyn always hung out together, Traci loved to hear Marilyn play the piano. Traci did not know what she wanted to do but she new she wanted to help people. They were both in the fifth grade together in Miss Wichelman's class. Miss Wichelman always taught them when life gives you a lemon or two just add water and sugar and you will have lemonade.
A few weeks later Traci was informed by Mairlyn's mom that she had leukemia. Miss Wichelman informed the class the next day, the class sat back and stared because they did not what to say or do. Traci visited Mairlyn everyday, she was there when she started chemo and her hair began to fall. One day Miss Wichelman stopped by to check on Mairlyn, she was really down in spirit thinking she would never playy piano again. Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn she had to get better so she could attend her wedding and she wanted her to wear yellow dress and they were going to make lemonade out of lemons. Just when she thought she was depressed andalone she found out not just her friends was there to help her fight her battle with leuikema but her whole fifth grade class. When she retuned back to class everyone had on hats just like her. Most importantly they shaved their heads just like her. Even Miss Wichelman shaved her head. Later that day Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn that she too knew how she felt because she had breast cancer. A few months later she was married and there the girls were in their yellow dress ready to make some delicious lemonade
This would be a great book to use in the classroom to introduce sickness and how to deal with it in the classroom. This book could also be used to help talk about strong friendship bounds or be used while talking about different character traits. I think it would be great to use lemons and lemonade as the center of a math lesson as well. I could also take lemons and write different adjectives own it and make lemonade with good adjectives and bad showing that it all taste the same, just depends on how you look at it.
Picture Book #2 The Blacker the Berry (Coretta Scott-King)
Author: Joyce Carol Thomas
Title; The Blacker the Berry
Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Readabilty Score: Kindergarten through Second grade
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Poems
Theme: Although ones skin can be different shades everyone has something that makes them precular and im portant
Primary and secondary characters: Young African American girls with different skin completions
Award(s) and date of publication: Corretta Scott-King Award Winner, New York Public Library's "Hundred Titles For Reading and Sharing", ALA Notable Children's Book, Kirkus Review Best Children's Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice. Copyright 2008
Publishing company: HarperCollins
ISBN number: 978 0-06-025375
Summary and how it could be used in the classroom:
The Blacker the Berry is a poem book where young African American girls compare the color of their skin to different berries. The book is basically telling people that it really does not matter what color your skin is that your still African American and still as important as the darkest African American to the lightest. You do not have to be color struck just true to yourself because everyone is important.
This would be a great book to use to talk about how one feels about themselves in the world. Students could write a reflective poem on how the feel the world views them as well as how they view themselves.
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