It's Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journeys. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It's also a great chance to see what others are reading right now… who knows, you might discover that next “must read” book!Our Kid Lit to YA version is hosted by Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers.
GREAT IDEA! Check out all of the What Are You Reading? participants for title ideas.
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The DIY book ... only offers two projects. That was kind of disappointing. But there's some good basic info there so that's better than nothing. Build background knowledge.
I read several picture book bios last week. They were quite well done in terms of pictures and text working together. I did enjoy them. I'm just not sure about the "need" for picture book bios on the people in question. That might be a personal hangup but Johnny Cash? Kandinsky's abstract art? Frieda Kahlo? Baseball players from the late 90s/2000s? Kids need all sorts of life examples. Just know these will take a lot more "selling" to kids than they did to adults.
And ... no time to add to the post. I always end up reading different things than I write down, anyway. ;)
May the Fourth be with you!
Totally agree with you on the picture book bios. I inherited this category from my predecessor and this year was too overwhelming to make changes to my JLG account. I teach in a 4-6 grade building, and these have rarely gone out with any of my 900+ kids.
ReplyDeleteYou need to get your teachers involved in projects! All of these beautiful books sit on my shelf and just as I contemplate weeding, a teacher comes in with her students to do a project on influential women, or music across the decades, or scientists and their work, and presto, they all get checked out.
ReplyDeleteThey do! Just ... well, one, getting respect for the beauty of a picture book biography is still a work in progress. They are seen as "not long enough for our grade." And two the individuals they tend to make time for tend to be more central to national/state history and not as often artists. So. I still ordered them. I display them. I read them aloud. And watch and wait for results.
DeleteHi there Ms O - I absolutely loved Frida - just an exquisitely crafted picture book. What a tribute to a beautiful woman.
ReplyDeleteTotally. Loved the concept and execution. Just has yet to even be picked up though it has prime top of the shelf display real estate for an entire week. Kiddos don't have a clue who she is.So it will take selling.
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