LEM 508 Assignment#7 Applying Selection Criteria
Selection#1
O’Connor, Jane, Glasser Preiss Robin, (March, 2008). Fancy Nancy Bonjour Butterfly Publisher: HarperCollins.
Selection Criteria
· Need and value to the collection
· Organization and format
· Appropriate for the age, ability level, learning style
· Cost effective in terms of use
Explanation for How the Publication Meets the Criteria
This is a good book to help children with vocabulary. Why say beautiful when there are fancy words like gorgeous and glamorous? Instead of hello, try bonjour, which is French and so much fancier. An umbrella will keep you dry, but a parasol will make you feel like a Hollywood movie star!
Justification Statement for Selection
(HarperCollins, 2008). www.fancynacy.com
After Nancy and her friend Bree become captivated with butterflies, the two girls decide to throw a butterfly party. Everything is going well until Nancy learns that she can't go to the party because she has to attend her grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary party. Thoroughly convinced that she won't have a good time, Nancy soon learns that her grandparents are indeed just as fancy as she is.
Selection#2
Dinesen, Deborah, Hanna, Dan: (March, 2008). , The Pout-Pout Fish: (Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Library of Congress
Selection Criteria
· Need and value to the collection
· Organization and format
· Appropriate for the age, ability level, learning style
· Pertinent to the curriculum and the objectives to the instructional program
Explanation for How the Publication Meets the Criteria
· This is a good book to help teach the children rhyming words.
· This book can be used in all subject areas.
· CURRICULUM IDEAS
Language Arts
The Pout-Pout Fish is a rhyming book, so students can look for rhyming words within the story, and then think about other rhyming words for those rhymes. Or they can look for groups of words that start with the same letter or contain the same vowel. Students at higher grade levels can use the story as the basis for writing exercises, such as retelling the story in their own words, imagining the same storyline in a different setting, or exploring what might happen after the book's end.
Mathematics
The characters in the story can be used for counting exercises, or as the basis for fun addition, subtraction, or multiplication practice. Students can count the number of pouts in the book, or graph the number of gloomy words per page. Try leg multiplication: If a clam has zero legs, how many legs do three clams have? If an octopus has eight legs, how many legs do three octopi have?
Science
Though talking sea creatures are not typically found in ocean ecosystems, the art in The Pout-Pout Fish creates a detailed and believable ocean habitat. Students can be assigned to study a particular lifeform (clam, jellyfish, squid, octopus), to identify plants or water features found in the art, or to try to classify Mr. Fish or the mysterious silver fish.
Art
Students can create their own versions of the creatures in The Pout-Pout Fish in two or three dimensions. At higher grade levels, students can analyze the art in the book. What is the style of the art? Which colors are used most frequently? How does the illustrator convey Mr. Fish's emotions and his transformation?
Other Ideas
The recurring refrain of The Pout-Pout Fish lends itself to audience participation, and students can discuss and practice ways to perform this refrain or to act out Mr. Fish's gloominess, his "blubs," and his transformation. The other characters -- Ms. Clam, Mr. Jelly, Mrs. Squid, Mr. Eight, and the mysterious silver fish -- can also be brought to life, through playacting or through music. For instance, Ms. Clam's shape might suggest a pair of cymbals, and the silver fish's mysterious nature might be effectively expressed with the sound of a rain stick.
If you'll be using The Pout-Pout Fish in the classroom, consider these curriculum connections:
Justification Statement for Selection
Library of Congress, (March, 2008). The Pout-Pout Fish, www.macmillian.com and www.fsgkidsbooks.com
The Pout-Pout Fish is a fun, rhyming picture book about a gloomy fish that discovers that being glum isn't really his destiny. Bright ocean colors, playful language, and engaging characters make the story perfect for sharing at home or at school. Children of all ages love Mr. Fish's transformation from a pout-pout fish to a kiss-kiss fish, and the story of The Pout-Pout Fish is all-but-guaranteed to turn a cranky child's pout (or even a grown-up's pout!) upside down.
Selection #3
Gravett, Emily, (March, 2008), Monkey and Me:Simon & Schuster
Selection Criteria
· Need and value to the collection
· Organization and format
· Appropriate for the age, ability level, learning style
· Pertinent to the curriculum and the objectives to the instructional program
Explanation for How the Publication Meets the Criteria
This is a good picture and wordless book for young children. This book will promote oral language, imagination and play along with rhyming for young children.
This book encourages a child to interact with the text and this book is a perfect way to foster a love of reading.
Justification Statement for Selection
Monkey and me, (March, 2008).
In Monkey and Me, a little girl and her toy monkey love to imitate animals. The book employs a rhyming refrain and charming illustrations that encourage the reader to play along. Start by reading Monkey and Me together and be amazed when you see your child reading it alone again and again.
Selection #4
Davis, Jackie, Soman, (March 13, 2008), Ladybug Girl, Publisher: David Dial Books, New, York, New York
Selection Criteria
· Need and value to the collection
· Organization and format
· Appropriate for the age, ability level, learning style
· Pertinent to the curriculum
Explanation for How the Publication Meets the Criteria
· This book will help enhance young children imagination.
Justification Statement for Selection
Ladybug Girl, Library of Congress, www.penguin.com
This book is about a little girl thateverybody is to busy to play with her. Lulu's older brother won't let her tag along because she is too "little," and Mom and Dad don't have time. What's a girl to do? Enter Lulu's alter ego: Ladybug Girl. Complete with wings and a ladybug polka-dot skirt, Lulu and her faithful sidekick, the family basset hound who is never too busy; go off on their own adventures saving the yard from danger.
Selection#5
Grimes, Nikki, Benny, Mike, (2008). Oh Brother!, Publisher: Amistad Press
Selection Criteria
· Need and value to the collection
· Organization and format
· Appropriate for the age, ability level, learning style
· Pertinent to the curriculum
Explanation for How the Publication Meets the Criteria
This is a good book to discussed family life. Also, this book connects with the real world situations on bi-racial families and this book would fit into the social studies subject area. Also, this book would help young children to understand that you can be different but you can still get along with each other.
Justification Statement for Selection
Oh Brother! (2008). Library of Congress
This is a special book. Each page-spread is a poem, and together the poems tell the story of a bi-racial, blended family overcoming the trials and tribulations of learning to live and love together. Xavier's mom has just married Chris' dad. To Xavier, the house feels too small, the love not enough for two, and just about everything Chris does, Xavier sees as ill-intentioned or competitive. But that makes the book sound heavy when indeed these are witty, moving poems that skip, sink, soar and take unexpected twists, along with the little boy's emotions. At the end of the book the little boys finally works things out.
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