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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
on the one hand I might start with Sy Montgomery's Tarantula Scientist (and , indeed, the whole Scientist in the Field program -- I don't think series is quite the right term since these are individual and author-driven books) or Loree Griffin Burns's the Hive Detectives -- on the other, and dependin g on which 4th graders you have, Sally Walker's Written in Bone or my If St ones Could Speak (the book which prompted the great question from the 4th g rader)
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From: Monica Edinger To: bookmarch Cc: ccbc-net Sent: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 5:42 pm Subject: Re:
different stances for different readers
Marc,
Perhaps I'm unclear by what is meant by L for children in grades 4 and youn ger. As I wrote the one book I thought of was Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek. I'm sure there are others, but they weren't coming to mind. Can you or ot hers here suggest a few? Maybe they are on my bookshelf after all!
Monica
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM, wrote:
Thanks to Rosanne for opening the door to NF poetry -- Joyce Sidman of cour se comes to mind, and in a very different voice Alice Provensen's classic T he Buck Stops Here, and to Monica for bringing up NF read alouds; I'm puzzl ed, though, by Monica's need to rank K v L in her bookshelf. The point is n ot to select one style of NF but, rather, for all of us to recognize and in vestigate the many voices and approaches NF takes -- continuously exploring to find the right match of book, reader, and classroom need. Different set tings, different ages, different young people will lead to different prefer ences. I am not a classroom teacher, so my contacts with 4th graders are di fferent from Monica's, but if we are going to trade anecdotes, I've found 4 th graders to be some of the most receptive to L books, since, in reading a bout a journey of exploration they see where they can go. Indeed it was a 4 th grade girl who asked me the best question I've ever been asked -- she li stened so carefully to one L story t hat she stepped beyond the bounds of th e book, and continued the investigative journey.
Marc Aronson
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
on the one hand I might start with Sy Montgomery's Tarantula Scientist (and , indeed, the whole Scientist in the Field program -- I don't think series is quite the right term since these are individual and author-driven books) or Loree Griffin Burns's the Hive Detectives -- on the other, and dependin g on which 4th graders you have, Sally Walker's Written in Bone or my If St ones Could Speak (the book which prompted the great question from the 4th g rader)
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From: Monica Edinger To: bookmarch Cc: ccbc-net Sent: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 5:42 pm Subject: Re:
different stances for different readers
Marc,
Perhaps I'm unclear by what is meant by L for children in grades 4 and youn ger. As I wrote the one book I thought of was Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek. I'm sure there are others, but they weren't coming to mind. Can you or ot hers here suggest a few? Maybe they are on my bookshelf after all!
Monica
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM, wrote:
Thanks to Rosanne for opening the door to NF poetry -- Joyce Sidman of cour se comes to mind, and in a very different voice Alice Provensen's classic T he Buck Stops Here, and to Monica for bringing up NF read alouds; I'm puzzl ed, though, by Monica's need to rank K v L in her bookshelf. The point is n ot to select one style of NF but, rather, for all of us to recognize and in vestigate the many voices and approaches NF takes -- continuously exploring to find the right match of book, reader, and classroom need. Different set tings, different ages, different young people will lead to different prefer ences. I am not a classroom teacher, so my contacts with 4th graders are di fferent from Monica's, but if we are going to trade anecdotes, I've found 4 th graders to be some of the most receptive to L books, since, in reading a bout a journey of exploration they see where they can go. Indeed it was a 4 th grade girl who asked me the best question I've ever been asked -- she li stened so carefully to one L story t hat she stepped beyond the bounds of th e book, and continued the investigative journey.
Marc Aronson
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