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From: Robin Smith <smithr>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:35:52 -0500
Okay, Ginny, I will start...
Almost all the children in my class love books about sports. They are less interested in books about the sports than they are in books about sports stars. I hope I am not jumping the gun (a sports phrase, I believe) by moving away from books about sports (like the Gibbons books) to books about athletes.
Here are a few perennial favorites with me and the second graders in my life: TEAMMATES by Peter Golenbock and Paul Bacon (The friendship between PeeWee Reese and Jackie Robinson)
WILMA UNLIMITED by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz (Wilma Rudolph--I teach in Tennessee and Wilma is a local heroine)
HOME RUNby Robert Burleigh and Mike Wimmer (Babe Ruth--the kids love all the minutiae that is found on the baseball card illustrations)
LOU GEHRIG: The Luckiest Man by David Adler and Terry Widener
SATCHEL PAIGE by Lisa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
ZACHARY'S BALL by Matt Tavares (this is for Ruth Gordon, who believes in the Curse of the Bambino. This book is an ode to the magic of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. I should reread it each year as my team (the accursed Red Sox) skids to a halt during the crucial part of the season.)
My children ALL love and read the series books about sports heroes.
(Step into Reading and Doris-Kindersley and All Aboard Reading and Hello Reader and Easy Puffin and Eyewitness and so on) Any of them. Over and over. I once taught a girl to read by reading and rereading the Step into Reading books about baseball heroes with her.
The publishers churn out books about soccer stars, women of the WNBA, Tiger Woods and power hitters of the major leagues. The books are appealing to kids. It's hard to comment on the individual titles because I have not curled up with these books. They cetainly vary in quality from publisher to publisher and author to author.
I hear bits and pieces of the various titles as the children read aloud to me. The formula of quick pace, lots of information and photos seem perfectly acceptable for what it is. Because my reading program is based solely on trade books, I have books of all sorts in my room. They do have to appeal to strong readers and emergent readers alike.
The sports books I read aloud to my students (listed at the top) are books I especially care about. I want to make sure the children hear, think about and then read them again on their own.
At the end of the year, the children look back on their reading logs and at the list of books I have read to them. TEAMMATES and WILMA UNLIMITED are always on the majority of the kids' favorite book lists.
Robin Smith Nashville
Received on Sat 08 Sep 2001 11:35:52 PM CDT
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:35:52 -0500
Okay, Ginny, I will start...
Almost all the children in my class love books about sports. They are less interested in books about the sports than they are in books about sports stars. I hope I am not jumping the gun (a sports phrase, I believe) by moving away from books about sports (like the Gibbons books) to books about athletes.
Here are a few perennial favorites with me and the second graders in my life: TEAMMATES by Peter Golenbock and Paul Bacon (The friendship between PeeWee Reese and Jackie Robinson)
WILMA UNLIMITED by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz (Wilma Rudolph--I teach in Tennessee and Wilma is a local heroine)
HOME RUNby Robert Burleigh and Mike Wimmer (Babe Ruth--the kids love all the minutiae that is found on the baseball card illustrations)
LOU GEHRIG: The Luckiest Man by David Adler and Terry Widener
SATCHEL PAIGE by Lisa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
ZACHARY'S BALL by Matt Tavares (this is for Ruth Gordon, who believes in the Curse of the Bambino. This book is an ode to the magic of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. I should reread it each year as my team (the accursed Red Sox) skids to a halt during the crucial part of the season.)
My children ALL love and read the series books about sports heroes.
(Step into Reading and Doris-Kindersley and All Aboard Reading and Hello Reader and Easy Puffin and Eyewitness and so on) Any of them. Over and over. I once taught a girl to read by reading and rereading the Step into Reading books about baseball heroes with her.
The publishers churn out books about soccer stars, women of the WNBA, Tiger Woods and power hitters of the major leagues. The books are appealing to kids. It's hard to comment on the individual titles because I have not curled up with these books. They cetainly vary in quality from publisher to publisher and author to author.
I hear bits and pieces of the various titles as the children read aloud to me. The formula of quick pace, lots of information and photos seem perfectly acceptable for what it is. Because my reading program is based solely on trade books, I have books of all sorts in my room. They do have to appeal to strong readers and emergent readers alike.
The sports books I read aloud to my students (listed at the top) are books I especially care about. I want to make sure the children hear, think about and then read them again on their own.
At the end of the year, the children look back on their reading logs and at the list of books I have read to them. TEAMMATES and WILMA UNLIMITED are always on the majority of the kids' favorite book lists.
Robin Smith Nashville
Received on Sat 08 Sep 2001 11:35:52 PM CDT
