TEED 5222 - Teaching place value or +/- with children's literature by Mark Roddy

The King's Commissioners - by Aileen Friedman, illustrated by Susan Guevara

markroddy2_1 — 2025-01-25 00:17:36 UTC

A brief summary of the book ....

A brief description of how the book connects with something you read for this week ....

Regan Sides

2025-04-15 02:44:58 UTC

I chose the book 12 Ways to Get to 11 by Eve Merriam. This book features number bonds to go to 11, and uses a bunch of fun animals and visuals to represent these number bonds.

One of the reasons I chose this book was because of how important learning how to count is, as it serves as a prerequisite for almost all skills in the future (Frank, 1989). While reading this book, the teacher can prompt the student to count the number of drawings on the page, making sure there is 11 on every page. Number bonds are also a great way to show children how the same number can be formed multiple ways, and this does it in a way that might interest them more.

Place Value

kateipo — 2025-04-15 20:43:21 UTC

Summary : Place Value by David A. Adler is educational children's book that introduces the concept of place value in mathematics using fun characters and colorful illustrations. The story follows monkeys performing in a circus, where they demonstrate how numbers work by showing how digits shift in value depending on their position—ones, tens, hundreds, and so on. With humor and clear examples, Adler makes it easy for young students to understand the concept by comparing place value to alphabetical order, showing how changing the position of letters in a word can change its meaning—just like digits in a number.

Why chose this book : Before choosing the book, I searched a couple of place value books but couldn’t decide on one. However, after reading Marilyn Burns’ the "Place Value" chapter (p.345), I was able to make a more informed choice. I selected Place Value by David Adler because it presents the concept in a way that is both accessible and engaging for second graders with comparison of alphabets and orders. The book contains child-friendly illustrations and ample explanations that go beyond basic digits, helping students understand the value of numbers in the tens, hundreds, and even thousands place which requires for second graders. What stood out to me the most was how the book uses clear comparisons—like relating place value to positions in the alphabet—to help students grasp the concept so they can expand their ideas and logics to bigger numbers too. I felt this analogy made the explanation more intuitive and meaningful for second graders.