Title: Rotten Ralph's Rotten FamilyAuthor/Illustrator: Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Children
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-0-374-36353-6
Rating: 5 out of 5 cats
Summary: This beginning reader book introduces short chapters to students who are learning to read on their own. Rotten Ralph is a cat who loves to get into trouble with his owner, Sarah. Ralph does not understand why he is so rotten. By the end of the story, Ralph finally understands that Sarah gave him a great life and why he was so rotten.
Title: A Day in the Life of a BuilderAuthor: Linda Hayward
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0-7894-7363-1
Rating: 5 out of 5 hammers
Summary: This is an amazing beginning reader book, including learning how to read time on a clock and analogue, as well as reading sentence structures. Jack is a builder who also has a family at home. He goes through his day building houses, going to meetings, and spending time with his family, which shows the reality of the life of a builder, at work and at home. There are specific words, related to building that are hi-lighted through the text with pictures to correspond to help readers learn how to read them with a relation to a picture.
Author: Dick Gackenbach
Publisher: Weekly Reader Books
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0-06-021958-0
Rating: 4 out of 5 Easter eggs
Summary: Hattie Rabbit and Linda Chicken are two friends who love Easter, which is coming very soon. When they are together one day, they see a sign on a tree advertising for specific animals to be in an Easter play. The sign said that chickens were wanted, not rabbits, which allowed Linda to be in the play, but not Hattie, which made her so upset. Read the rest of the book to find out what happened in the Easter play!
Hattie, Tome and the Chicken Witch seems like it would be an interesting book for around Easter time! It could also be a good book for beginning readers to read to learn about feelings. Also, it says it is a play and story which could be a great idea to expose different types of text to young readers! Overall, your books sound very interesting and I can't wait to hear about them in class.
ReplyDeleteNice job including a nonfiction/informational beginning reader in your collection this week. Those are becoming easier to find and certainly appeal to a wide variety of readers. I always find them a bit harder to read because of the specialized vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteRotten Ralph and his Rotten Family reminded me of the beginner reader books that I read. Many of my books had animals as the main character and they were getting into trouble too!
ReplyDelete"A Day in the Life of a Builder" seems like a very interesting topic for a beginning reader! I feel as though at that age, especially boys, it may be a good topic. It brings me back to the discussion we had in class, is this a gender specific book?
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