https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh These Books Would Be Good For Students 2nd-3rd grade en-us 2017-01-19 23:00:52 UTC 2023-03-27 11:19:25 UTC hello@padlet.com MsHaim https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/153914766 Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial. This book can be used to talk about character traits, or even as a fun read aloud for the class or individual readers. This can also be used to talk about the writing structure in which books are written in.
Genre: Fiction ]]> 2017-02-15 03:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/153914766 MsHaim https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/153914803 Twelve-year-old Mitch Sinclair just found out that his father has left him and his mother for another woman. Torn apart by the news, he and his mom go up to Bird Lake to stay with his grandparents for a while. Unfortunately, his grandparents seem to feel very uncomfortable with their two houseguests, creating an edgy atmosphere. To stay out of their way, Mitch spends as much time as he can away from the house, including swimming in the lake and exploring the empty house next door. Desperate for something solid to hold on to, he decides to claim the empty house as his own. He carves his initials into the railing and moves a few belongings under the porch. He begins dreaming that he and his mom might buy it for real and move in together. This book can be used as a class read aloud or used for a lesson on theme and details throughout a novel.
Genre: Fiction 

]]> 2017-02-15 03:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/153914803 MsHaim https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/162978828 Eleanor is devastated when her babysitter, Bibi, moves away to take care of her elderly father. Things get even worse when the new babysitter doesn’t quite measure up to Bibi. Can Eleanor survive the summer and prepare for a new school year without Bibi? You can use this in your classroom to teach students about series of events, or make it more on a real life level and talk about the changes people have to go through whether they necessarily want to deal with them or not.
Genre: Fiction]]> 2017-03-27 23:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/162978828 MsHaim https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/162979216 Dinosaurs Before Dark Jack and his younger sister, Annie, stumble upon a tree house filled with books. Before Jack and Annie can figure out the mystery of the tree house, it whisks them back to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. You can use this lesson for a point of view lesson, or any history lesson that has a corresponding book that goes along with its topic.
Genre: fiction]]> 2017-03-28 00:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/162979216 MsHaim https://padlet.com/MsHaim/8phj1snvh1xh/wish/166768547 Amber Brown and Justin Daniels have been best friends since preschool. They always sit next to each other on class trips, they help each other with schoolwork and they know what the other is thinking. According to Amber, Justin “makes life more fun.” The only problem is that Justin is moving. Amber had thought life was hard when her parents got divorced, but Justin’s moving feels even more horrible. It gets even worse when Amber and Justin don’t want to deal with it the same way. Amber wants to talk about it but Justin won’t and that is hard for Amber to understand. They end up fighting and stop speaking over a silly argument that is really just an indicator of what is going on below the surface. With a little help from her mom, Amber realizes that sometimes people deal with a difficult situation by pretending that it isn’t happening. She comes to understand that her friendship with Justin is still strong and just because he isn’t acting that way, doesn’t mean that he doesn’t feel just as sad as she does about his leaving. That knowledge enables them to make up and enjoy their last few days together. This book can be used in the classroom to talk about points of view and the importance of difficult subject matters like a friend moving or divorce within a family.
Genre:  Realistic Fiction 

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