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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

By Leo Lionni

Alexander was lonely....... then he met Willie.

One day while exploring the house Alexander comes across and befriends a wind-up mouse named Willie. Alexander becomes jealous of his new found friend and asks a magical lizard to change him into a wind-up mouse as well.

Twilight

By: Stephanie Meyer

Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.

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ch. 8 The Fiction Family:

Fiction- books that are made up by the author, or are not true.

Realistic fiction- involves real life with characters dealing with real life problems

Historical fiction- often portrays fictional accounts or dramatization of historical figure or events

Fantasy fiction- uses magic and other supernatural forms as a theme, and or setting

Science fiction- imaginary elements that are possible within scientifically established laws of nature

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Here are a few picture books that I have read recently:

Duck on A Bike
Shannon, David
A duck decided to ride a bike and soon influenced all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

Good Night, Gorilla
Rathmann, Peggy
An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he left behind in the zoo.

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Numeroff, Laura J.
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie and takes the reader through a young child's day.

The True Story Of The Three little Pigs
By A. Wolf
Scieszka, John
Illustrated By Lane Smith
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

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chapter 7
Picture books combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil. They tend to have to functions: they are first read to young children by adults and then children read them themselves once they begin to learn to read.

Ch. 6Traditional Literature
This chapter offers many ideas on how to teach this genre to your students. Traditional literature has something that appeals to all interests ex: adventure stories, humorous stories, and magical stories. Types of traditional literature are folktales, fables, myths, and legends. Using graphic organizers helps the students understand what they are reading and compare different versions of the story.

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Poetry is the expression of a thought, idea, or story in a structured form which has flow and music created by sounds and syllables. As such it gives the student freedom of expression. I believe there should be discussion about the different forms of poetry, but students should be allowed to choose what type of poem they would like to create. Also I believe they should pick a poem they would like to recite to the class, not be assign by the teacher. If the student has this opportunity it will be more meaningful to them.
Ch. 5