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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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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.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Seven Blind Mice

Basic Documentation
Book Title: Seven Blind Mice

Author(s): Ed Young

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Ed Young

Publisher: Penguin Publishing

Copyright Date: 1992

Genre: Folklore

Brief Annotation:
Based on a Fable from India, 7 blind mice try to use their
senses to identify a guest in their house.
Each mouse uses a different sense on a different day. The fable’s theme is: ‘knowing all the information (or whole) is
more important than knowing part.’

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 5
I love this book! It has
addresses many concepts (color, days of the week and the lesson of the
fable). The pictures, colors and writing
keep the reader intrigued and is a great resource to practice predictions. I love the surprise (answer) at the end.


Readers who will like this book:
Readers who enjoy guessing, predicting and surprise endings will
probably love this book. Readers that
are curious and like investigating will also enjoy the connection with the mice
and their use of senses to learn and answer questions.


Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:
How do we learn about our surroundings? What do we have that helps us understand
our environment?

Can we understand how to read by only knowing letters a-m? What
do we call it when we answer using only part of the information? (guess)


Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): 4-8

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 3.3


3. List awards
Caldecott Honor
Boston Globe
Hom Book award
California Children's Media award
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1 comment:

  1. Suzy Kaback & FamilyMarch 7, 2012 at 6:02 PM

    This book would make a good addition to a science unit about the 5 senses, don't you think? I'm also starting to envision a textset of books about being without one of our senses, including The Sound of Colors and Black Book of Colors.

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