I love bringing out different authors and presenting a collection of their books to the students. This time however, instead of doing an author I did an illustrator, David Cantrow. He is an awesome illustrator and his illustrations keep the kids entertained and always searching for the "hidden pictures" when we read a new book we talked about the repeating patterns we noticed in his work and how that affected the story.
I always try to integrate what we're learning into the books that I have out on the shelf for the month so here's what I was able to use with David Cantrow:
"Our Tree Named Steve" was used to discuss personification. The reading teacher also used this book while we were discussing David Cantrow to review on background knowledge and also she focused on the focus of the illustrations on each page that David Cantrow did.
"The Long, Long, Letter" I used to discuss hyperboles and exaggeration. While reading the book I had the kids shout out "hyperbole" if they heard one in the book.
I used "I Wanna Iguana" at the beginning of the quarter to introduced persuasion and then we later wrote a persuasive paper for Valentines Day. (Check back in February for my full discussion of that project)
I also had out books on the Solar System for the kids to check out. Again I was surprised at how excited they were to learn about the planets and what's in our Solar System. They were constantly checking the books out and trading with friends around the room. They also acted as an aid when students were doing research for their power points on a planet they chose.
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