Late Elementary School Books by Carla Aguilar https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy Made with a quick smile en-us 2017-12-05 17:10:38 UTC 2017-12-05 19:57:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Charlotte's Web by E.B White carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213400403 Summary:
 Fern is a little girl who saves a piglet from being slaughtered and names the piglet Wilbur. Later, Fern's dad send Wilbur to live on the neighbors farm. At first Wilbur missed Fern so much then he befriends some of the other animals on the farm and one of his friends is a spider named Charlotte. One day the sheep of the farm tell Wilbur the that the farmer wants to kill him. Charlotte begins to spin messages on her web. Eventually, Wilbur does not turn into food but Charlotte ends up dying.
Classroom use: 
This book is full of different lesson one can use for the classroom. One can be to have the students write about a different ending for the story. Another is to start a book club with the class. Instead of morning work the students can read and after the entire class has arrived to class the class can sit on the carpet and share what they liked about the story. ]]> 2017-12-05 17:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213400403 Coraline by Neil Gainman carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213409546 Summary: 
Coraline has recently moved into a new home and has strange neighbors. Her neighbors are an old woman who was an actress and the old man trains mice. In the new house she find a hidden door which takes her to a world where everything in her life is upside down. She has a new mother and new father and new neighbors. This book is full of strange phenomenon such as talking cats. 
Classroom Use:
This book would be great to use to teach about comparing and contrasting as well as teach about diagrams they can use to compare and contrast such as a venn diagram. 
This book can also be used in a class book club where students can discuss what they have read with each other. This creepy book can also be used to read out loud to the students since reading to the students helps their fluency and prosody.  ]]> 2017-12-05 17:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213409546 Holes by Louis Sachar carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213414882 Summary: 
A young boy named Stanley Yelnats has a bad generational curse on him which lands him in a detention camp called Camp Green Lake for something he did not do. In the camp, the boys are forced to dig holes in the ground. In the book, Stanley tells three separate stories as to why he is cursed and to why the warden of the camo is making them dig holes. 
Classroom Use:
Students can use this book to learn about sequence of events as well as learn about symbols in the book. ]]> 2017-12-05 17:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213414882 Smile carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213434087 Summary: 
Raina is a 6th grade student who has an accident where she falls and breaks her two front teeth. This book is about her 6th grade school year. She goes through a lot of typical girl stuff such as boy problems, getting braces, and taking braces off, as well as getting a retainer with fake teeth. 
Classroom use: 
This book would be great to have in the classroom library in a 5th grade class. The setting in this book in is middle school so it would be great to get the students about going onto middle school.]]> 2017-12-05 18:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213434087 Invisible Emmie by Darienne Stewart carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213444782 Summary: 
This novel is about a two girls. One girl is named Katie and she is a the popular girl. Emmie is the quiet girl who is getting bullied. Both characters have a lot in common besides having very diverse lives. Both of them come together the day a secret note falls into the wrong hands.
Classroom Use:
I would have this book be a part of my classroom library. This type of book is very popular amongst older students. ]]> 2017-12-05 18:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213444782 Drama by Raina Telgemeier carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213458248 Summary:
This is a novel          
about a girl named Callie who loves theater who is troubled because she really wants to try out for her drama classes play but she needs to be able to sing. Instead of participating in the play she ends up working on the set and the goal to remodel everything to look like better than Broadway.
Classroom Use:
I would love to get this book into my classroom library because it shows the older elementary school students about how fun extracurricular activities can be.
]]> 2017-12-05 19:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213458248 The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213461389 Summary:
This chapter book is about a mythical land called Narnia. A group of girls and boys were playing hide and seek when they end up accidently discovering a wardrobe that takes them to a new land. Narnia is full of talking animals and a magical things. 
Classroom use: 
I would use this book as a tool to teach about fiction novels. I could have my student read this book as class to help develop their comprehension since this book has a vast vocabulary. One activity they can do to show they understand this book is to create an exam based on this book to give to another friend to take. ]]> 2017-12-05 19:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213461389 A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213476475 Summary:
The book is a bout a young girl named Zoe Elias who is 10 years old. Her biggest dream is to get to own a piano. He dad ends up buying her a very old and rusted organ. She was upset that it was not what she had envisioned. However, she ends up learning to play the organ and even ends up in a competition which she ended up doing well.  By learning how to play the organ she was able to perform for her parents as well as make new friends. 
Classroom Use: 
I would use this book to teach students about making the best out of a situation. I could also use this book as a writing assignment for the students to talk about a situation that did not go as planned and what they did to make that situation work out in their favor.

]]> 2017-12-05 19:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213476475 How You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213480872 Summary:
This novel is about a sixth grade girl named Miranda who lives in New York and how her life gets flipped upside down when she starts receiving messages from an anonymous person. The person was telling Miranda things about herself that have not yet happened. 
Classroom use:
I would use this thrill seeking book as a fun read a loud for the class to use for regrouping students. I will also store this in my classroom library because Miranda is close in age to the older elementary students.]]> 2017-12-05 19:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213480872 Kid Docs by J.W. Lynne carlya45 https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213484394 Summary:
Conner is 14 year old boy that is apart of an experiment called "Kid Docs". He was chosen at the age of 3 alongside his friends, to undergo medical training as a part of the experiment. In the book, he plays the role of an emergency room doctor, and books talks about his experience. This book would be great to have my students to think about outside the box and talks about the role of doctors
Classroom Use:
This would be great to have in my classroom library so that my students can read about the roles of being a doctor. ]]> 2017-12-05 19:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/carlya45/jx9hrah190wy/wish/213484394