New Book News
January/February/March 2000
Excerpt
Book
A Child's Calendar by John Updike
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Holiday, 1999 (gr. 1-6)
Poems and paintings describe the activities in a childs life and the changes in the weather as the months go by.
Idea
Use the poems by John Updike as the inspiration for your readers to make their own poetry anthologies. Students can select one to three poems by various writers that reflect their feelings and activities during the month. Selecting the poems can occur throughout the month as the changes in the season and dates inspire changes in activities. Students then illustrate their monthly anthologies with an appropriate illustration, either one they draw or one they take from a magazine.
Idea
Use a calendar toss to help your readers to select a book to read. On the first day of each month, put the appropriate page from a large calendar on the floor. Each reader then tosses a marker onto one of the days of the month. Identify an author born on that date, and the child selects a book to read that month written by that author.
Strategies for the following books are also included in the January/February/March issue
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- A. Lincoln and Me
- by Louise Borden. (gr. 2-5)
- All Alone in the Universe
- by Lynne Rae Perkins. (gr. 5-8)
- And the Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends
- by Mary Ann Hoberman. (gr. K-4)
- The Brain Explorer
- by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, Pearl Tesler, Linda Shore and The Exploratorium. (gr. 3+)
- Bud, Not Buddy
- by Christopher Paul Curtis. (gr. 5-8)
- Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!
- by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel. (gr. K-4)
- Don't Need Friends
- by Carolyn Crimi. (gr. K-3)
- Emily's First One Hundred Days of School
- by Rosemary Wells. (gr. K-3)
- First Night
- by Harriet Ziefer. (gr. K-3)
- The Full Belly Bowl
- by Jim Aylesworth. (gr. K-4)
- The Great Divide
- by Dayle Ann Dodds. (gr. 1-4)
- The House of Wisdom
- by Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland. (gr. 2-6)
- How Big Is Big?
- by Stephen Strauss. (gr. K-5)
- How Tall, How Short, How Faraway
- by David A. Adler. (gr. 1-4)
- If A Bus Could Talk
- by Faith Ringgold. (gr. 2-5)
- The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
- retold by Philemon Sturges. (gr. K-3)
- My Heroes, My People
- by Morgan Monceaux and Ruth Katcher. (gr. 3-7)
- My Rows and Piles of Coins
- by Tolowa Mollel. (gr. K-4)
- On Beyond a Million
- by David Schwartz. (gr. 2-5)
- One Hundred Days of School
- by Trudy Harris. (gr. K-3)
- Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
- by Rosemary Wells. (gr. 2-5)
- Simply Delicious!
- by Margaret Mahy. (gr. K-4)
- Snowy Flowy Blowy
- by Nancy Tafuri. (gr. K-3)
- Super Sand Castle Saturday
- by Stuart J. Murphy. (gr. K-3)
- The Two Bullies
- by Junko Morimoto. (gr. K-4)
- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
- by Kimberley Willis Holt. (gr. 5-8)
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