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You have accessed the blog site for Choosing and Using Books for Children. Throughout the term we'll use our blog to record the books we read and the ideas we have for using them when we're teachers. By the end of March, our class will have read at least 280 books. Happy reading!

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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.

Monday, February 13, 2012

The Trip

Book Title: The Trip

Author(s): Ezra Jack Keats

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Ezra Jack Keats

Publisher: Mulberry Books

Copyright Date: 1978

Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Brief Annotation: Louie’s family moves to a new neighborhood and Louie had to say goodbye to all of this old friends. At his new home he makes a diagram of a miraculous city and he flies to this city. He meets scary, unknown creatures throughout his journey. In the end, he realizes that these creatures turn out to be his old friends from his old neighborhood.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 3 – The book uses a child’s imagination to read this story. Some of the words are hard to read due to the background color of the illustrations.

Readers who will like this book: Students who have a wild imagination will enjoy this book. Also, children who have recently moved to a new neighborhood can relate to this book.

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: Have you ever dreamed of a place to travel to? What was this place like?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): K – 2

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 2.8

3. List awards: None

4. Does this book have a book trailer? No

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