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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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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.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Of Colors and Things

BASIC DOCUMENTATION
Book Title: Of Colors and Things

Author(s): Tana Hoban

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Tana Hoban

Publisher: Mulberry Paperback Book

Copyright Date: 1989

Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Brief Annotation:
Various objects are grouped together by color.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 4
The colors on the pages are bright and clearly identifiable. The objects chosen are good discussion starters and objects beginning readers have connections with.


Readers who will like this book:
• Beginning readers learning book concepts
• Beginning readers learning colors and color associations

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins:
#48 Word Sorts (pp. 136-138)
Word sorts are activities students can do to examine or categorize words by their own or pre-determined criteria.
I think this is a great activity for students learning the concept of reading books. They can be given the opportunity to organize objects by color and possibly introduce organization by using color words as titles. It is a good extension to the activities in the book.

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:
After reading the title, can anyone make a prediction about what might be found in this book?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): 5-6

2. List awards
• An ALA Notable Book
• A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
• A Horn Book Fanfare Honor List Book.
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