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1. Underline or italicize all book titles (choose one formatting style and stick with it--underline OR italicize for all book titles)
2. Add your name in the "label" box before you post each documentation.

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.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Trainstop

Book Title: Trainstop
Author(s): Barbara Lehman
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Barbara Lehman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Copyright Date: 2008
Genre: Wordless Picturebook Contemporary fiction
Brief Annotation: A young girl boards the train. She sees many interesting things out her window. When the train stops she finds she has arrived at a magical place with very tiny people. She is the giant of this land and can solve the little people’s problem.
Your Rating (1-5) and Why: I rate this book a four because the pictures are really great and lead you right to the story. There are many objects for the children to name.
Readers who will like this book: Preschoolers will like creating the story to this picture book.
Question to ask about this book before you read aloud: Have you ever been on a train?

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