last blog of the semester

Well blogging was a lot of work, but I enjoyed doing this instead of writing a journal. We were able to see the other classmates thoughts and see it from their point of view. This semester has gone by so fast, hard to believe it's over. I really enjoyed this class. Ms. Pickett made the class worthwhile and fun. I have some friends that had another teacher for this class, and they told me that they had to read thirty books and made sure that they books mentioned in the textbook. I saw how stressed out they got just doing that assignment. We're lucky Ms. Pickett did not make us do that. This was my favorite class of the semester. We learned a lot about new techniques to engage children in reading.

I know a lot of you this is your first semester here at A&M, word of advice: Enjoy your time here at A&M. It will go by fast. I know I won't see any of you next semester, because I am student teaching in the Spring, so I just want to say Good Luck!

Who knows maybe I'll blog about my student teaching experience. It'll be fun.

genre presentations day 4

Today the last two groups presented. The first groups genre was Multiculture Literature. The book they chose was cute. The activity they did was reading the story with pictures of themselves acting out the story. That was a good idea. Children will love to see themselves in pictures going along with a book. The food they brought in was a good idea as well. The second group that presented did a mystery genre. The book they chose seems pretty interesting. I would like to read it. The activity was good. First they had small groups and then you needed the whole class to figure out the solution. Working together is always a good idea. Overall, everyone did an excellent job. I really picked up some new ideas to do with the students and make reading fun. This project was so much fun to do.

genre presentations day 3

On the third day of presentations, we had 3 groups present. The first group that went did their presentation on poetry. The book they used was The Giving Tree. I loved their display board with the tree. It was so creative. On the display board, they had their favorite poems by Shel Silverstein. The video they showed with one of the group members reading the book was so good. They did such a good job. The second group that presented was my group. Our genre was Traditional Literature. Hope you guys enjoyed our presentation with the Looney Tune clip with the wolf's side of the story, and our newspaper. The last group that presented did their genre on Fiction. The powerpoint was very interesting, it made me want to get the book and read it. They took their lesson with the hangman game. It's a old school game, but I never thought to use hangman to teach the kids about prefix and suffix. Great idea. Every group that presented today did such a good job.

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One of my favorite authors when I was growing up and still is, is Mercer Mayer. He is best known for his series The Little Critter, which is favorite. Looking back on all the books he has written about the Little Critter, my favorite is Just Grandma and Me. This book is about spending a whole day with grandma at the beach building sandcastles, eating hot dogs, and the ride home on the bus. That book holds so many memories for me. My grandma gave me that book when I was 5 years. To this day, I still have it. Because it has so many memories for me, I don't think I am going to put that in my classroom library.

Mr. Mayer writes book about spending time with family. The Little Critter is constantly around family. Mercer Mayer has so many books about just normal family things. Another that is my favorite is Happy Easter, Little Critter. There is the Easter Bunny that drops off the kids easter baskets, they go to Church (and the Little Critter complains about the big hats), they get to dye eggs, and have easter egg hunt.

Mercer Mayer's collection of the Little Critter includes the Little Critter with his grandpa, mom, dad, little brother, Christmas, Halloween, dealing with a new neighbor, homework, a school project, going to bed, spending a day at the hospital, and etc.

Here is a website that you can find all his books and games. http://www.littlecritter.com/

chapter 11... shared reading article

From the many postings on Shared Reading that I have read from you guys, I take it you guys do not like shared reading. I was not in class that day when all of you did the shared reading. Shared reading is a collaborative learning activity. Shared reading is somewhat like read alouds. Of course one of the main reasons why you would do shared reading is the same reason for everything else, you want to provide an enjoyable reading experience to the students. I think shared reading is important just like the other types of reading. It allows the students to learn about new authors and reading can teach the students to better readers and writers.

genre presentations day 2

Today in class two groups presented their genre. The first group that went first did really well. I mostly enjoyed the powerpoint with the vocals at the end of the presentation. The powerpoint was very powerful. They are correct when they said that everyone has been afforded grace. I agree with what Ms. Pickett when she said that we should think about others especially during the holidays.

The second group that presented did thier genre on fantasy. They gave a lot of useful information. I didn't even know there was different types of fantasy, I just thought all fantasy was the same. The powerpoint with all the fantasy pictures was really good along with the music. The book they read was really good. It was cute how they bought in props for their chair and share what was behind it.

Both groups did a really good job today. It seems like they had a good time working on the project, and were able to work together. These presentations are so much better than having the students do a book report. It's so much more fun for the children to do something like this.

genre presentations day 1

The first group that presented on Thursday did such an excellent job. The genre they picked was Multicultural Literature. During their presentation, they stated that literature comes from all over the world, and it is such a learning tool for the children to learn about other cultures that they may not be exploited to. A lot of multicultural literature have such good morals that we should know. I really enjoyed the video the group did. They retold the story using stick puppets, and the music that was added was great. At the end of the video, they had a few bloopers which were funny. We got to see how much fun the group had with the project. They did a great job with the genre presentation.

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For one of my Field Based assignments during my first semester here at A&M, I had to do a read aloud with my third grade students. I had a great time doing this lesson, and so did the kids. After the kids tested all week, it was good to do an assignment that would have been fun for the kids. The book I chose for the read aloud was The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams. I had the students do sequence. After that easy assignment, I had put the kids into groups, and they were to come up with something scary that maybe the little old lady might be scared of. The students were involve with the story, they would join in and read the book with me. The kids had a great time. This website has a lot of great lessons that can go with the book. http://www.nancypolette.com/LitGuidesText/LittleOldLadyWhoWasNotAfraidOfAnything.htm

This book is great for any grade. You can do sequence, sounds, imagination, new vocabulary, senses, research, higher order thinking, writing, and singing. It's a great book, especially for the fall season, and Halloween.

chapter 10

Read Alouds are so much fun and important to do for kids of all ages. Even for the older kids, read alouds can be fun and important. For kids of all ages you can do read alouds because you will need to check if the children can comprehend what they have just listened. Listening comprehesion is important for every grade level. After you do read alouds, you can always do a fun lesson afterwards. I believe read alouds are very effective if the teacher does it the right way. The teacher would have to animated and enthuisatic. I really enjoyed the video that Ms. Pickett showed of what not do to for a read aloud. That was a good example of a non-effective read aloud. She didn't involve the kids and it looked like she didn't want to be there or read the book. The other video Ms. Pickett showed was a great example. Jennifer Myer, the teacher in the video, she did a great job. She involved her students. During the read aloud, she asked the kids what they thought certain words meant, and have the students share thier thoughts with their elbow partner. Jennifer Myer has some good videos on her website. It shows what you should do for the read aloud, and guided reading lessons. For my previous last two semesters of field based, my mentor teachers never did a read aloud. The only time the students saw a read aloud was during thier library time. The librarian would do the read aloud. Instead of the librarian doing the read alouds, the general education teacher should be doing the read alouds, and check if their students can comprehend what is going on. Read alouds should be fun for the teacher and the students.

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An author I looked up for nonfiction is Patricia Lauber. She has written over 65 nonfiction books for young readers. Her books are based on Science. She has written books about dinosaurs, bats, dolphins, dogs, volcanoes, earthquakes, the solar system, the earthworm, and many more. She has stated that she loves to write nonfiction books, because this is what interest her and she gets to learn more information about them. Patricia Lauber has also stated that when she discovers something really interesting, she must share it with others. Not only does she write nonfiction books, she also writes children books.

Here is a lesson plan for one of her books: Be a Friend to Trees. You could use it for Arbor Day. http://sftrc.cas.psu.edu/LessonPlans/Forestry/UsesTree.html.

Here's a lesson plan that goes along with another one of her books: Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glide. It's to show the children the life cycle of a plant. http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceArtMDYarnIllustrationsOfTheLifeCycleOfFloweringPlants34.htm

chapter 9

As I was in Elementary, Nonfiction to me meant anything that was going to be boring. It was basically the Encyclopedia's and long biographies that was filled with nothing but text and only a few of pictures. But as I got older, learned that nonfiction can mean so much more and have a lasting meaning to the everyone. After taking Wilson's EDRG 4304 class, I now know that there are nonfiction books out there that can have a meaning to the children. Biographies can be so much fun now. Instead of looking through Encyclopedia to learn about that person, there is so much more. Even the youngest children can learn about them. For assignments that include nonfiction, there is a lot to do. You could do the graphic organizers, read alouds, and meeting of the minds. I didn't know about the meeting of the minds until Ms. Pickett explained what it was. It sounds like such a good idea to do with the class. Let them become professionals on a certain famous person.

chapter 8 favorite fiction

My favorite type of fiction is romance and love stories. My favorite author that writes excellent books is Nicholas Sparks. Mr. Sparks has written 16 books relating to love. Four of his books has been inspired into a movie, and they are: Message In a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, and Nights in Rodanthe. The Last Song is currently being filmed. If you love the movies that have aleady been made, then you will fall in love with the books. Each of his books do relate to love, but in a different way.

It'll be hard for me to write about what a few of his books are about in just a few sentences, so I'm going to put what is on his website.

http://www.nicholassparks.com/

The Rescue

When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: he can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over and the relationship starts to become truly intimate. When a raging storm hits his small Southern town, single mother Denise Holton’s car skids off the road. The young mom is with her four-year-old son Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Taylor McAden finds her unconscious and bleeding, but does not find Kyle. When Denise wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone. During the search for Kyle, the connection between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. It will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love and will require him to open doors to his past that were slammed shut by pain. This rescue will dare him to live life to the fullest by daring to love.

The Wedding

After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Wilson is sure of one thing--his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. Now, with the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.

True Believer

Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernatural with a regular column in "Scientific American," he's just made his first appearance on national TV. When he receives a letter from the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights that appear in a legend-shrouded cemetery, he can't resist driving down to investigate. Here, in this tightly knit community, Lexie Darnell runs the town's library, just as her mother did before the accident that left Lexie an orphan. Disappointed by past relationships, including one that lured her away from home, she is sure of one thing: her future is in Boone Creek, close to her grandmother and all the other people she loves. Jeremy expects to spend a quick week in "the sticks" before speeding back to the city. But from the moment he sets eyes on Lexie, he is intrigued and attracted to this beautiful woman who speaks with a soft drawl and confounding honesty. And Lexie, while hesitating to trust this outsider, finds herself thinking of Jeremy more than she cares to admit. Now, if they are to be together, Jeremy Marsh must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he's never done before--take a giant leap of faith. A story about taking chances and following your heart, True Believer will make you, too, believe in the miracle of love

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Over the weekend, I received an email from Amazon, and it was Top 10 New York Times Bestsellers in Children's Picture Books. I thought I would post them up, since we just finished talking about Picture Books.

1. Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook by Barb Bersche

2. LEGO Star Wars by Simon Beecroft

3. Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies by Julie Andrews

4. Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner

5. Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems

6. Waddle by Rufus Butler Seder

7. Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson

8. Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library! by Vicki Myron

9. Runaway Mummy by Michael Rex

10. Otis by Loren Long

chapter 7

I love picture books. The picture books such a joy to kids and adults alike. I like how in the book on page 147 it says that "Picture books are the marriage of literature and fine arts into a unique literary form." It has a story and pictures that are painted, or hand drawn. Picture books are great and most used for read alouds. It's a good thing that Ms. Pickett showed us a video of what not to do for read alouds. Read alouds should be entertaining, and fun, not boring and no interaction with the kids. As I was reading the chapter, I didn't know that picture books only had 32 pages. Space is so limited but authors can make the book have a lot of meaning. Kids of all ages can enjoy picture books, even kids in middle school and high school. They may seem to old for pictures books, but they enjoy them. It's a great break from the other books they have to read. The teacher just needs to know how to use picture books in lessons for the older kids.

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You may have heard of Jon Scieszka, he wrote The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs. Mr. Scieszka has written a lot of books that are all so good. Another book he wrote that you can see the other side of the story is: The Frog Prince Continued. In this book it shows what happened after the "They lived happily ever after." He also wrote The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Fairy Tales. Scieszka changes some of the fairy tales. Jon Scieszka also has a series of book called the Time Warp Trio. It's about three boys that goes through a time warp. I have read of the books and it's really good. Boys can get into the book. He keeps it fun for them.

http://www.jsworldwide.com/

chapter 6 & Path of Needles or Pins

Traditional Literature is such a comfort zone for me. It's always comforting when the story begins, "Once upon a time..." and it ends, "And they lived happily ever after." Stories like that is what they teach in schools to children. So a few parents would think that it's the original version that their children are learning. It's fun to see twists or the other side of a story to knownstories. My favorite would be The True Story of the 3 Pigs. It allows the readers to see what the wolf has to say to what happened. I really enjoyed the ideas the book shared about sharing and discussing traditional literature with students. You could allow them to do storytelling, story maps, literary element charts, a Venn Diagram, use puppets, or write a newspaper. I think kids will enjoy writing a newspaper a lot. That will be the time they can write whatever they choose to based on the story. With Traditional Literature, it can be entertaining and also have a moral, like Aseop's Fables.

After reading Path of Needles or Pins, I would have never thought that fairy tales would be so bloody and horrifying. After reading the story, it had me thinking about other stories. Did Goldilocks and The Three Bears end the way it did? What about Snow White? There are so many questions now. I'm going to need to look up all this stuff. It's crazy to think that fairy tales started off as being horrifying. Clearly these stories were meant for adults. Authors had to clean them up a lot for kids, but I don't think they should have used adult stories to make them into kids stories. When the kids grow up and find out the real versions, they are going to be so shocked and surprised.

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One of my favorite poets would have to be Jack Prelutsky. He has written many books. All of his poems are meant to be funny. His poems makes you laugh constantly. Having the kids read a funny poem is always a good way to introduce poetry. A couple of his books are: The New Kid on the Block, For Lauging Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funny Bones, Something Big Has Been Here, A Pizza the Size of the Sun, and It's Raining Pigs and Noodles. Kids will have a blast with poems by Jack Prelutsky.

I checked his website, and even the site is fun. His website contains activities with the poems, music, pictures of his family, and sports cards that have a poem on them. http://www.jackprelutsky.com/

chapter 5/14

My memories of poetry are very slim and boring. I don't remember doing much poetry in elementary school. But I really do remember poetry in high school. The poems we had in high school were boring and extremely confusing. We always had to interpret what we thing the poet was trying to get across, but when we would do that, the teacher would mark it wrong. After reading the chapter, poetry looks fun for elementary school children. Also if the teacher is really, really good, then he/she can make poetry for the older kids. Most of the books that are mentioned in the chapter, I have never heard of. So it's good to have a list of good poerty books for future references. Last semester in my EDRD 3344 with Barker, we talked about poetry. She even allowed us to create out own poem in any form we wanted. Allowing the kids make up thier own poem would be fun. You will be able to get an insight of the child thoughts, and check if they understand the concept. Since you're allowing the kids to write a poem, don't critize what they wrote, or then they may never want to write ever again. A teacher should not only make the children feel comfortable in reading, but also in writing. We should encourage them to write whatever comes to their mind.

Maya Angelou

The interview of Ms. Maya Angelou was both uplifting and motivating. I became a fan of hers during my senior year of high school, but watching the interview, I've became a bigger fan. I liked how she said that teachers must relate to their students. There is not a way that teachers and students cannot be able to relate. We both have emotions, feelings, and are human beings. I loved how she started to recite some poems. When she is reciting the poems, she really gets into them, and speaks from the heart. All poems should be read like that. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is such an excellent poem. I never thought about looking at this poem from a teacher's point of view. But Ms. Pickett is right, kids want to learn and we should let them learn.

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We all know how popular the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer is. So that means, even if you are not a fan of the movie or the book, you still should read it because your students will be talking about it. The teacher needs to know what is popular and knows what his/her students like. I decided to look online for some lesson plans on Twilight, and I did not realize that there was so many. The Twilight Saga is popular among young teenage girls, but with the right lessons, boys can get into the series as well. Twilight has four books in the series: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. I have read the Saga, and each book is great. It makes you keep wanting to read. With the Twilight Saga being turned into movies, I would like to have the students compare and contrast the book and the movie. Here's a website where there is a lot of good lesson ideas for the book.

http://novelnovicetwilight.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/twilightunit.pdf

Besides the Twilight Saga, Stephanie Meyer has written other books as well. She has written Prom Nights from Hell, and The Host. I haven't read those books, but I have heard that they are good as well.

chapter 4

Chapter 4 was a review for me. I learned all this when I took 3344 with Barker last semester. Just like the book we had used in her class, this book also has a lot of good ideas for activities the teacher can use to deepen children's responses to literture. Instead of making the students read the book and then write a book essay, the textbook as other activities. You can make them do a response journal (it's when the teacher and the student go back and forth writing to each other about the book), a reader's notebook (same thing as a response journal), retell the story, book talks/discussions, reader's theatre, and other things. By doing other activities with the students, you can check if they can comprehend what is going on in the book, and their writing skills. This morning Dr. Ferguson had said that we could grade two subjects in one lesson. It can save us, as the teacher, a lot of time, and we could use that time for more guided reading or math or even the subjects that seem to get lost during the day, for example: science and social studies. A fun activity that is mention in the book is the graphic organizer. Instead of using the same old graphic organizer that's just boring, make it fun, like Mrs. Pickett did for us. Let the students choose which way they want to do their graphic organizer. I also enjoyed reading Figure 4.3 Selecting Books by Development and Age. They gave a lot of good book examples for each grade level, and age. This data will be helpful in the future when I become a teacher.

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This book is probably my favorite book of all time... Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Sendak is best known for this book. This book allows the students to use their imagination about where the wild things are. Believe it or not, Where the Wild Things Are was not very popular among adults when it came out because they thought Max was a bad role model for kids, and the wild things were a bit scary. But over the years it became more popular. One of the activites I liked that you can do with your students, is allow them to use their imagination and draw a wild thing. Since the book is now a movie, which by the way, comes out on October 16, 2009, you can have the students compare the movie with the book. I'm so excited for the movie to come out, I'll be there opening day with my 2 year old nephew, he loves the book as much as I do.

http://newteachersupport.suite101.com/article.cfm/teaching_with_where_the_wild_things_are

Maurice Sendak is also known for his illustrations in the Little Bear series. The Little Bear series is written by Else Homelund Minarik. I would use the Little Bear series as a transition from beginner/picture books to chapter books. It can also be great with guided reading.

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1139.html

chapter 3

After I finished reading Chapter 3, a lot of the information from the chapter was coming back to me. I remember learning a lot of this stuff in 3314. One of the things I really liked reading in the chapter was on page 39, the last paragraph. It says, "The last important aspect of a reading transaction is that whenever these three parts- the reader, the text, and the message- come together, there is a change in the reader." In one student, the change can be very small, while others the change is going to major and big. With the change, it brings back with what Mrs. Pickett said today in class, it doesn't matter what the author thinks about the book, the only thing that matters is what the reader thinks. I really enjoyed all the ideas that are mentioned in the chapter about assessing comprehension. Comprehension is being able to understand and make meaning of what was just read. Like the book says: COMPREHENSION IS THINKING. It might be hard to assess a child's comprehension, but it has to be done.

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Yesterday morning, my nephew and I were awake really early, so we decided to watch t.v. I was flipping through the channels, and we came across Martha Speaks. It's about a dog that talks and everyone can hear her. My nephew, who is 2 years old, really enjoyed the show. At the end, it said it was based on a book series. So I decided to look it up later that day. Martha Speaks is written by Susan Meddaugh. http://pbskids.org/martha/parentsteachers/program/author.html

We also watched Curious George on PBS kids. I didn't even know that the book was turned into a tv series. Curious George has always been my favorite books to read. George always got into some kind of trouble. Curious George is written by Hans Rey and Margaret Rey.

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/

chapter 2

Culture is a difficult topic to talk about at school. The teacher wouldn't want to leave any culture left out in the discussion. As I was growing up, I was lucky enough to experience different cultures besides my own. But today, I noticed that schools, well teachers, do not talk about culture. The schools I have done my Field-Based have been in the South San Antonio ISD, and the majority of the students share the same culture. So I know they have not had the opportunity to experience other cultures while in school. I thought my first semester of Field-Based I was going to see how the teacher handles the different cultures to teach during the holidays, but all they seemed to talk about was Christmas with the trees, lights, Santa, etc. Teaching culture to the students should be taught, so they would know how act in a mannerly order towards other cultures, if they become face with another culture.

I remember in class, Mrs. Pickett mention something about the kids not taking home the sight or spellings words on Monday, like they do every week. That reminded me of last semester in my Field-Based. I was in a Kindergarten class, and one week we were really busy, so we didn't have enough time to pass out the words for the week to the kids. The next day, we had parents calling the teachers, and there were parents dropping by the classroom just to see what happened to the words. At that point, I didn't realize how much the spelling words meant to parents. But now that Ms. Pickett said that spelling words is the last thing that parents feel they could help their kids with schoolwork, I now understand why the parents made such a big deal about it. I know to make sure I send out the spelling words every week.

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I have so many favorite author's, it's just too hard to pick a few to talk about.

One of my favorites would have to be Peggy Parish. She wrote the Amelia Bedelia series until she passed away in 1988. In 1995, her nephew, Herman Parrish, started the series back up again. I was looking through the publisher's website on the book, and I learned that they now have an Amelia Bedelia picture book about when she was a young child. It didn't say if it was out already, but I'm going to have to look for this book, and find out why she was so confuse.

http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/kids/gamesandcontests/features/amelia/

Another favorite of mine is Eric Carle. He's the one that wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar. His books can be used for kids of all ages. For my lessons that I have to do for my field based, I always turn to Eric Carle, to see if he has a book I am to use for a lesson.

http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html

Another one is Shel Silverstein. The poems that he has wrote are all funny. My favorite is The Giving Tree. This particular has two meanings, it could be about the tree, and from my perspective it's about a parents love.

http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html

I have many favorite author's, but I'll post a few more next time.

chapter 1

While I was reading Chapter 1, I realized that half of my elementary school years I was in a Literacy Literature classroom. For grades K- 3rd, the teachers I had believed that reading was very important in a child's life, so we would have lots of books around us. For 4th- 6th (I moved to a different district), we didn't have a class library at all. Not having a class library was a big change for me. I was used to reading when I had nothing else to do. So I had to take my own book to read. I know the teachers I had knew that reading was a very important skill to acquire to get by in life. I always wondered if they believed that, then why didn't they have a classroom library? When I was in those grades, I always thought the school would buy the books, and the school I went to was within one of the poorest districts. But then I realized that the teacher has to buy them.

As a future teacher, I want my classroom to be filled with lots and lots of books so they can read. I want to teach them to read for fun, not just because they have to. I want them to imagine what's going in the book, and get lost in it. I was looking at the pictures in the textbook, and i admire that the teacher has a lot of book. I should be collecting books already, but I just haven't and I don't know why. I know that I have to start, and I will, since I'm student teaching next semester.

My author profiles will up later on... I'm behind on these blogs already, and the semester barely started.