A Book Trailer: Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun

A Book Talk: Dirt On My Shirt

This hilarious collection of poems tells the story of the different people that live the narrator's neighborhood. The illustrations are light hearted, whimsical, and take you on a journey through the narrator's neighborhood the reader will meet unique characters such as Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed, and Aunt Foo Foo.

This would be a great book to introduce students to poetry because it is so much fun to read. I would use this book in a third grade classroom to assess students on their fluency. Fluency is something that a teacher needs to assess and sometimes it can be boring to students, but if you used interesting books such as this one the students would have much more fun reading for fluency
Book title: Dirt on My Shirt
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Illustrator: Steve Bjorkman
Genre: Poetry
Number of pages: 32
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Standard Used: 21.B) Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.3.4b]

A Book Review: The Wolf Who Cried Boy

The Wolf Who Cried Boy takes a twist on the classic fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. This book is about a wolf who wants to eat a boy, and keeps telling his parents that there is a boy near by. Eventually his parents do not believe him and when a boy really does come his parents do not believe him. The illustrations in this book are in colored pencil, are very detailed, and aid in the visual aspect of the story.
I would use this book to teach about how there are different versions of many books. we would read both books and then use a venn digraph to compare and contrast the two stories.

Book title: The Wolf Who Cried Boy
Author: Bob Hartman
Illustrator: Tim Raglin
Genre: Traditional Fiction
Number of pages: 32
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Standard Used: 8) Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. [RL.2.9]

A Book Talk: The Magic Hat

Book title: The Magic Hat

Author: Mem Fox

Illustrator: Tricia Tusa

Genre: Fantasy, picture book

Number of pages: 32

Copyright year: 2002

Publisher: HMH Books

Standard used: 4) Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. [RL. 2.4]