New Book News
January/February/March 2007
Excerpt
Book
Today and Today Haiku by Issa
Pictures by G. Brian Karas
Scholastic Press, 2007 32p. (gr. K-6)
Haiku tell of an ordinary, extraordinary year in the life one family.
Idea
A new year will bring events both ordinary and extraordinary. Readers can identify the ordinary events in their lives. Then can then select one event and indicate how the ordinary event really is extraordinary.
On a piece of folded drawing paper, they can make a collage painting of the ordinary event, and on the other side of the paper they make a collage painting of how the event was extraordinary.
Readers can write a haiku for their ordinary and extraordinary event, describing how they feel about the event. Haiku is, of course, a very specific poetry form:
- first line - 5 syllables
- second line - 7 syllables
- third line - 5 syllables
Students then write the poem on their collage illustrations, for a reminder of how extraordinary their ordinary lives can be.
In addition to the my Top 25 Books of 2006, strategies for the following books are also included in the January/February/March issue:
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- Clockwise
- by Sara Pinto. Bloomsbury, 2006 (gr. K-2)
- Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido d'Arezzo
- by Susan L. Roth in association with Angelo Mafucci.
- Houghton, 2007 (gr. 1-4)
- Great Big Guinea Pigs
- by Susan L. Roth. Bloomsbury, 2006 (gr. K-3)
- The Green Glass Sea
- by Ellen Klages. Viking, 2006 (gr. 5-8)
- Henry's Freedom Box
- by Ellen Levine. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
- Scholastic Press, 2007 (gr. K-4)
- I Love You Always and Forever
- by Jonathan Emmett. Illustrated by Daniel Howarth
- Cartwheel Books / Scholastic, 2007 (gr. K-2)
- January's Child
- by Andrea Alban Gosline. Illustrated by Lisa Burnett Bossi.
- Scholastic Press, 2007 (gr. 1-5)
- Pierre in Love
- by Sara Pennypacker. Pictures by Petra Mathers.
- Orchard, 2007 (gr. K-3)
- A Mama for Owen
- by Marion Dane Bauer. Illustrated by John Butler.
- Simon & Schuster, 2007 (gr. K-3)
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
- by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
- Hyperion / Jump at the Sun, 2006 (gr. 3-8)
- New Clothes for New Year's Day
- by Hyun-Joo Bae. Kane Miller, 2007
- The Other Mozart
- by Hugh Brewster. Illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Abrams, 2007 (gr. 4-7)
- Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship
- by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu. Photographs by Peter Greste.
- Scholastic, 2007 (gr. 1-5)
- Reality Leak
- by Joni Sensel. Illustrations by Christian Slade.
- Holt, 2007 (gr. 4-6)
- A Second Is a Hiccup
- by Hazel Hutchins. Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton.
- Levine / Scholastic, 2007 (gr. K-3)
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