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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in grades 4-6 in either an ELA or SS class. 

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in grades 4-6 in either an ELA or SS class. 

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Serravallo Strategy: 5.20 Nonfiction Leads

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Serravallo Strategy: 5.20 Nonfiction Leads

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I could use this strategy to teach students to try out a different lead to engage a reader's interest and to entice them to read more.

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The author wrote an informational text about John F. Kennedy. On the first page, to interest the readers, she used a lead that speaks directly to her readers. 

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The author wrote an informational text about John F. Kennedy. On the first page, to interest the readers, she used a lead that speaks directly to her readers. 

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" John F. Kennedy loved to read about history. But history isn't just in books-- it's happening all around us. And the people who make history aren't just famous leaders or characters in stories. They're real people, just like you. Sometimes, they ARE you."

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in a 6-8 grade Social Studies class.

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in a 6-8 grade Social Studies class.

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Serravallo Strategy: 6.11 Take Notes From an Illustration or a Photo

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Serravallo Strategy: 6.11 Take Notes From an Illustration or a Photo

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I could use this strategy to teach students to think critically about illustrations/photos to help them learn more about a topic they are researching.

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This book includes many pictures of artifacts, letters, maps, illustrations, and political cartoons. 

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This book includes many pictures of artifacts, letters, maps, illustrations, and political cartoons. 

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Students could do a Notice and Wonder or a KWL about a political cartoon. Students in Gwinnett County learn about Australia and its history in the second semester. They could use political cartoons to make inferences about the relationship between Australia and New Zealand.

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in grades 4-6 in an ELA/Writing class. 

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in grades 4-6 in an ELA/Writing class. 

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Serravallo Strategy: 6.15 Let Your Readers Know Who's Talking!

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Serravallo Strategy: 6.15 Let Your Readers Know Who's Talking!

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I could use this strategy to help students write dialogue clearly when they are working on narratives, so that readers do not get confused with who is speaking.

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When it comes to dialogue, the author makes it very clear who is speaking. For example:

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When it comes to dialogue, the author makes it very clear who is speaking. For example:

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pg. 4 - "Did you get the toys we sent you?" asked Papa. Papa always asked about the toys. "Si," said Areli.

pg. 30 - "More than twelve million immigrants passed through here on their way to America," said the tour guide.

pg. 36 - "I could do anything here," Areli said to the city sky. "Someday, I will."

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use in grades 4-5 in both ELA and Science classrooms.

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use in grades 4-5 in both ELA and Science classrooms.

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Serravallo Strategy: 6.22 Support Your Facts

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Serravallo Strategy: 6.22 Support Your Facts

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I can use this strategy to teach students to explain their facts when writing informative texts to help readers learn more about the topic they are presenting.

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This author uses this strategy throughout the book, but a specific example I want to share in found on page 20:

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This author uses this strategy throughout the book, but a specific example I want to share in found on page 20:

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The author states this fact: "The Portuguese man-of-war is not really a jellyfish."
The author directly follows with more information to explain that fact: "It is a colony of small animals called polyps that need one another to survive. There are four types of polyps within a single colony." The author goes on to describe each type. The author took one fact and then built on it to write a whole section.

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in grades 4-8 in an ELA class.

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Grade Level: This book would be good to use with students in grades 4-8 in an ELA class.

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I would use this book as a mentor text during a narrative or poetry unit. I could use this strategy to teach students to repeat a line to communicate a meaning or to emphasize an emotion, characteristic, or trait.

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There are a few lines/phrases that are repeated in this book that emphasize Libba's perseverance. She was left-handed. Guitars are made for right-handed people. That didn't hold her back from learning how to play guitar. She simply switched the guitar to the other side and played it "backwards". 

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There are a few lines/phrases that are repeated in this book that emphasize Libba's perseverance. She was left-handed. Guitars are made for right-handed people. That didn't hold her back from learning how to play guitar. She simply switched the guitar to the other side and played it "backwards". 

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For example:
pg. 6 - "She turned the guitar upside down and played it backwards."
pg. 9 - "But Libba never stopped in her tracks. She kept rolling."
pg. 11 - "So Libba put her mother to sleep, playing upside down and backwards."
pg. 26 - "Soon the whole house was turned upside down and backwards."
pg. 29 - "Libba turned her guitar upside down and backwards so she could play it her own way. She turned the music world upside down and backwards, too. Libba Cotten never stopped in her tracks. She kept rolling."