https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q Jasmin Orellana Garcia READ 3600 Literacy Assessment Sec 03 en-us 2020-09-04 00:10:50 UTC 2020-09-06 16:19:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f920.png jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719748971 Author: Meg Medina
Award: John Newbery Medal
Year: 2018
Genre: Fiction
Date read: August 29, 2020- August 31, 2020
Review: This book is about the main character Merci attending a private school and her experience transitioning from 5th grade to 6th grade. She is struggling to make friends and to juggle the amount of classes she has. At home, her family has suddenly have to deal with her grandfather, named Lolo, about his Alzheimer's.  I enjoyed this book because it gives an inside look on how Hispanic families are very close when an illness may arise in the family. I also liked how the book really showed how different lower class families live such as Merci's
Age/Audience: This book would be interesting to a student who may be transitioning from elementary to middle school or who's in 4th or 5th grade.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use this book for strategy 6.10, "Who's Telling the Story?" in Serravallo (2015) because students can be asked if the narrator is a character in the book or if the narrator is someone from the outside of the story. this can also help teaching students what is going on this story and connect more with the characters. ]]> 2020-09-04 00:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719748971 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719843449 Author: Jean Reagan
Illustrated by: Lee Wildish
Year: 2020
Genre: Fiction, Humor, Children's Lit.
Date read: September 1, 2020
Review: This is a how to book on how to read to a grandparent for children. Each page is a step that a child should take to pick out a book that a grandparent will enjoy and also how to use the appropriate voice when reading it. I thought it was a very cute book and I would like to include it in class library just because it is silly and short.
Age/Audience: This book is intended for students who are around 5-7 years old.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use this book for strategy 1.6, "Characters Do, Characters Say," in Serravallo (2015) because students can look at each picture and read the text and connect it to one another. They can connect it by reading what the text says to what the characters are doing in the picture. ]]> 2020-09-04 01:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719843449 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719887455 Author: Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes
Illustrated by: Scott Magoon
Awards:  Schneider Family Book Award for Young Children (2019), Monarch Award Nominee (2020)
Year: 2018
Genre: Fiction
Date read: September 1, 2020
Review: This book is about a rescue dog and a child who got both legs amputated at a young age. Both have to navigate their new life and later in the story, they meet together to help one another. I really enjoyed this book it was a sweet story and very emotional.  I enjoyed reading about the transition of someone who got both legs amputated and how a service dog really makes an impact on someone's life who needs it.
Age/Audience: This book is intended for students around the age of 6-8. This book would be interesting for students who like dogs and they can see that dogs can be very helpful for people with disabilities.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use strategy 6.1, "How's the Character Feeling?"  in Serravallo (2015) because students can be asked to really pay attention to the emotions each character is feeling. This can help students really connecting with each character by knowing how they are feeling throughout the book. ]]> 2020-09-04 01:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719887455 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719932571 Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Award: The Caldecott Medal
Year: 2003
Genre: Non-Fiction, Picture Book
Date read: September 1, 2020
Review: This book is about a street performer, Phillipe, who took the risk and walked between The World Trade Center in the 1970's. I really enjoyed this book because Phillipe to do something he loved doing and also because it paid tribute to the Twin Towers in New York.
Age/Audience: This book may be interesting for students around the third grade who may have learned about 9/11 and the events that took place. This book can illustrate to a child that before the Twin Towers came down, a man by the name of Phillipe, tight roped between them.
Connection to Serravallo: This book can be used for strategy 2.7, "Prime Yourself with Prior Knowledge,"  in Seravallo (2015) because students can start thinking about what the book might be about. They can use the picture in cover and even be asked what the word "towers" may be referred to in the title to start thinking about the topic.

]]> 2020-09-04 01:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/719932571 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722277751 Author: Rita Lorraine Hubbard & Oge Mora
Award: Caldecott
Year: 2020
Genre: Non-fiction
Date read: September 2, 2020
Review: I really enjoyed reading about Mary walker and how she learned how to read at the age of 116! This was so moving and I loved the book so much.
Age/Audience: This is intended for students who are interested or are learning about historic black heroes, especially when learning about Black History Month. This can be for students in the 1st to 3rd grade.
Connection to Serravallo: This book can be used for strategy 9.5, "Gather up Facts,"  in Serravallo (2015) because students can pick out the facts on events that took place in the book. For example, students can say, "it is a fact that Mary Walker learned how to read at age 116." ]]> 2020-09-05 00:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722277751 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722365112 Author: Janelle Diller
Illustrator: Adam Turner
Year: 2013
Genre: Fiction
Date Read: September 2, 2020
Review: This book was really cute and I really liked it because throughout the book the characters say German words and asl translate it. It also has a strong message about friendships and loneliness.
Age/Audience: This book is intended for audience that are around 6-9 years old. This is also good for students who enjoy mystery books and also series books.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use strategy 5.2, "Title Power," in Serravallo (2015) because it can help them think of the title while they are reading. Students can be asked how the title was connected throughout the book and what events also had a connection to the title. ]]> 2020-09-05 02:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722365112 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722384618 Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Year:1999
Genre: Fiction
Date Read: September 2, 2020
Review: I really enjoy the whole series of Magic Treehouse so reading this brought me back to when I was in the third grade in my school's library treehouse. I hope to include this in my personal classroom library for my students to learn more about what happened on the Titanic and look at the pictures at the end of the book to gain a better perspective on how big the Titanic was.
Age/Audience: This book is intended for students who are around the ages of 6-9. This book can be targeted for students who may want to learn more about the Titanic and also students who like to read series books about historical events.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use this book for strategy 5.7, "Series Books have Predictable Plots," in Serravallo (2015) because students who have read the Magic Treehouse series can think how the books start off and end.  For example, the books usually start off with a mission that the two kids have to complete ,and the treehouse is spinning to take them to their mission. This can make kids to pay attention to patterns in the book when they read the series. ]]> 2020-09-05 03:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722384618 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722907269 Author: Jerry Craft
Award: Newbery Award,  Coretta Scott King Award
Year: 2019
Genre: Graphic Novel, Comic
Date read: September 3, 2020
Review: I really liked this book because the main character, Jordan, started going to a new private school where he struggled to find kids like him since his school was a predominantly upper class white students. I really liked it because it was through the lens of a black teenage boy and the inner struggle they had when others were showing micro-aggressions towards him.
Age/Audience: This book is intended for students around 8-12 years who are really into comic books or minorities that may feel like outsiders in their environments or attend a school that is predominantly white.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use this book for strategy 2.16, "Choose Books with your Identity in Mind," in Serravallo (2015) because I can connect it by telling students to pick a book that is based on their interest and not on their reading level. For example, kids who like The Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Naruto books might enjoy New Kid. ]]> 2020-09-05 23:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722907269 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722923331 Author: Jeff Smith
Year: 1995
Genre: Comics, Graphic Novel
Date read: September 3, 2020
Review: I really enjoyed this book because three characters were really funny in their own way and had dry humor. I also enjoyed the graphics of this book because it really emphasized the emotions the characters felt.
Age/Audience: This book is intended for students who are in the upper elementary and middle school grades. This book is also for students who are interested in adventure books and comics.
Connection to Serravallo:  I could use strategy 5.23, "Map it," in Serravallo (2015) the characters go to various places throughout the book to find each other since the characters were separated in the book. This strategy can help students keep track of each place that the characters encounter and how it affected them in the story. ]]> 2020-09-06 00:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/722923331 jorellanagarcia https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/723450558 Author: Ray Bradbury
Awards: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel
Year: 1953
Genre: Novel, Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction
Date read: August 27- September 5, 2020
Review: I really enjoyed this book because I have always been interested in dystopian-type books such as, Divergent and Hunger Games. I really liked the subtle implication about censorship and how it can affect society as a whole.
Age/Audience: The reading level for this book is for students around 4th-7th grade, but the targeted audience is for high schoolers. This book is intended for students who are interested in science fiction books and dystopian fiction books.
Connection to Serravallo: I could use strategy 7.12, "Dig Deeper to Find a Story's Topics," in Serravallo (2015) because students throughout the book can be asked to connect the book to real world events and problems they have encountered or have been told of to have a greater understanding of what the author was trying to portray.]]> 2020-09-06 15:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jorellanagarcia/za7ve2sgo7thbr3q/wish/723450558