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Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
Add your post to the round-up by clicking on the link below. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) after your name so Mr. Linky makes a hotlink for it. For example: Picture Book of the Day (Making Cents). I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks!
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Making Cents by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson (Author) and Bob McMahon (Illustrator) is about counting and earning money.
Look! We have five pennies.
We can trade them for a…
Nickel!
Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write about what they can buy with the money they earn.
Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops
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The cut paper art of Matisse is brought to life in Oooh! Matisse, a poetic “take a closer look” book by Mil Niepold (Author) and Jeanyves Verdu (Art Director).
white,
I am snow
and blue, I am
the mountains below
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice and as students create their own paper collages and write about what they see in them.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Two Writing Teachers.
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Sally and Dave, a Slug Story by Felice Arena is a tongue twister!
Sally loves to swish, slam dunk, and sink baskets on Saturdays, and she’s super at shooting soccer goals on Sundays.
Teach the traits of voice and sentence fluency as students write their own tongue twisting tale.
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In I Don’t Want to Go! by Addie Meyer Sanders (Author) and Andrew Rowland (Illustrator) Joey doesn’t like to try new things.
Joey, is your bag packed?” Mom asked. “Grandma and Grandpa are here. They’re taking you to their house and you’re going on the train. You’ll have a wonderful time.”
“I don’t want to go,” Joey said.
Teach the traits of sentence fluency and conventions as students write about a time they tried something new.
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Rabbit & Squirrel by Kara LaReau (Author) and Scott Magoon (Illustrator) is subtitled “A Tale of War and Peas.”
“Though Rabbit and Squirrel
lived right across the way from each other,
they kept to themselves
and never offered each other vegetables
or even bothered to say hello…
Teach the traits of ideas and organization as students write a story about a misunderstanding.
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Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone (Author) and Rebecca Gibbon (Illustrator) is the life story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the leaders of the 19th century women’s rights movement.
What would you do
if someone told you
you can’t be what you want to be
because you are a girl?
Teach the traits of organization and conventions as students write about what they think needs to change.
Comments(4) Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
Add your post to the round-up by clicking on the link below. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) after your name so Mr. Linky makes a hotlink for it. For example: Picture Book of the Day (Elizabeth Leads the Way) I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks!
1. Picture Book of the Day (Elizabeth Leads the Way)
2. Read. Imagine. Talk. (Great Spring Books)
3. Shelf Elf (Elephants and Golden Thrones)
4. Karen’s Slice of Life (See How It’s Made)
5. The Well-Read Child (Surfer of the Century)
6. Julie M. Prince (As Good as Anybody)
7. Jules, 7-Imp (Lady Liberty’s biography and new PB about King and Heschel)
8. Lori Calabrese Writes (I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote)
9. Becky: Dickens: His Work and His World
10. Wendie’s Wanderings (She Touched the World, Laura Bridgman)
11. Abby the Librarian (She Touched the World)
12. Wild Rose Reader (Poetry & Science, Part I)
13. Read. Imagine. Talk. (Great Spring Books)
14. I.N.K. (Jennifer Armstrong on What I Wish I Had Known)
15. propernoun.net (Browsable Science Titles)
16. Tricia (Sea Queens)
17. Cloudscome (Ralph Ellison biography)
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The Months by Sara Coleridge, first published in 1834, is brought to life again by illustrator Kathy Weller…
May brings
flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their
fleecy dams.
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice and as students write a short poem for the month of May.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Big A, little a.
Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops
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The Great Texas Hamster Drive by Eric A. Kimmel (Author) and Bruce Whatley (Illustrator) was inspired by a school visit! In this original tall tale, the daughter of Pecos Bill and Slue Foot Sue wants a pet…
“Here’s what I want,” said Sal. She showed everyone the picture of a little animal.
“That looks like a mouse,” said Bill. “If you want a pet mouse, go to the barn. We got plenty of ‘em there.”
“It’s not a mouse, Daddy,” said Sal. It’s a hamster.”
Teach the traits of voice and conventions as students write about a pet they would like to own.
