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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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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, March 5, 2012

It's a Book

Book Title: It’s a Book
Author(s):  Lane Smith
Illustrator/Photographer/ Artist: Lane Smith
Publisher: Roaring Book Press
Copyright Date: 2010
Genre: Contemporary realistic fiction
Brief Annotation: This is a funny book about a mouse, a jackass, and a monkey. The monkey has a book that the jackass keeps thinking is not technological enough. The book can’t do anything that the jackass asks because it’s a book. But at the end he likes the book too.
Your Rating (1-5) and Why: I rate this book a five because it’s cute and has a cute message.
Readers who will like this book: I think everyone young and old will like this book.
Question to ask about this book before you read aloud: When you look for a book to read, what do you look for?

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  1. Suzy Kaback & FamilyMarch 7, 2012 at 5:46 PM

    You might be interested to know that this book has met with a lot of criticism. Can you guess why?

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