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One important recommendation:
Create your documentations in a separate Word document, then cut and paste in a blog post.

Basic Documentation

Book Title:

Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
Use book wizard to help with the previous 2 areas


3. List awards

4. Does this book have a book trailer? If so, cut and paste the web address here.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Edward and the Pirates

Book Title: Edward and the Pirates
Author(s): David McPhail
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: David McPhail
Publisher: Trumpet
Copyright Date: 1997
Genre: Fantasy
Brief Annotation (2-3 sentence summary): Young Edward refuses to give over his library book about pirate treasure when a band of pirates demands it. He discovers they can’t read anyway, so he agrees to read it to them.
Your Rating, 1(poor)-5 (outstanding): 4.5
Readers who will like this book: Kids with an active imagination, kids who like pirates, and librarians and teachers.
Teaching Idea from 50 Literacy Strategies, Step-by-Step (Tompkins): Word Sorts
"A strategy for examining and categorizing words according to their meaning, sound-symbol correspondence, or spelling patterns" (p. 113). Make three sorting activities. a) words that begin with vowels and words that begin with consonants; b) 1, 2 and 3-syllable words; c) root words with and without suffixes
Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: Have you ever been reading a book when suddenly you lost track of the real world around you and became part of the book?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:
1. Interest Level (age): K-2

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 4.8

3. List awards: None

4. Book trailer? None
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