Nonfiction Monday Round-up

Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!

Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…

1. Picture Book of the Day (The Story of Salt) 
2. Karen at Literate Lives (The Brook Book)
3. Cloudscome (National Poetry Month)
4. Mary Lee (One Hen)
5. Marianne H.Nielsen(Importance of reading!)
6. Sarah N. (What Happens to a Hamburger)
7. Amy Thomas (musician biographies)
8. Laura Salas (Jersey Boys Make Me Care)
9. A Fuse #8 Production (Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln)
10. The Well-Read Child (Do Not Open)
11. Abby the Librarian (Gorilla Doctors)
12. Lori Calabrese Writes (Dolley Madison Saves George Washington) 
13. A Patchwork of Books (Good Night World)
14. Wendie’s Wanderings (Meow Ruff – Poetry Monday)
15. 7 Imp (L is for Lollygag)
16. Wendy
17. I.N.K. (Kelly Fineman on Twelve Rounds to Glory)
18. Tricia (Gallery Ghost)
19. Becky (One Tiny Turtle)
20. Propernoun.net
21. Lisa Rondinelli Albert (Market Research)
22. Anamaria (Mia Posada’s Egg Book)
23. Jennie at Biblio File-(Malcolm X and Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog)

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Nonfiction Monday: The Story of Salt

The Story of Salt by Mark Kurlanski (Author) and S. D. Schindler (Illustrator) begins with a rock…
 
My rock was only salt, which we sprinkle on our food without a thought. But that simple common thing–salt, or NaCl, as it is known chemically–has been the object of wars and revolutions. It has fascinated people and preoccupied economies since before recorded history.

Use this story of salt to teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students select a favorite fact and create a page about it for a class reference book. (Reference is one of the six genres of nonfiction.)

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Poetry Friday: What is Science?

What Is Science? by Rebecca Kai Dotlich (Author) and Sachiko Yoshikawa (Illustrator) asks a question and answers it many different ways.

What is science?
So many things.
The study of stars
and Saturn’s rings.

Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students write their own question and answer poems.

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Cuentecitos.

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Bravo, Tavo

Bravo, Tavo! by Brian Meunier (Author) and Perky Edgerton (Illustrator) is a basketball story and a drought story that takes place in Mexico…

Dribble-flip,
dribble-boing…
The ball bounced off the hoop. Tavo had missed again.

Teach the traits of sentence fluency and ideas as students write their own sports stories.

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Big Smelly Bear

Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup is the story of an itch…

Big Smelly Bear never washed.

Teach the trait of ideas and organization as students write their own animal stories.

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Good Enough to Eat

Good Enough To Eat by Brock Cole begins…

Once there was a poor girl with no mama and no papa and nothing at all, not even a name. So some called her Scraps-and-Smells, and some called her Skin-and-Bones, and some called her Sweets-and-Treats, for that is how she earned her living–selling stale buns and paper birds in the market.

Teach the traits of conventions and voice as students write their own “ogre” stories.

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Nonfiction Monday Round-up

Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!

Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…

1. Picture Book of the Day (Perfect Timing) 
2. Sarah (First Field Guides)
3. Cloudscome (Psalms for Young Children)
4. Laura Salas (Cave)
5. Sara Lewis Holmes (Request for Book/Poetry Suggestions)
6. Lori Calabrese Writes (Jackie Robinson) 
7. A Fuse #8 Production (An Artist’s America)
8. Amy Thomas (Two by Leonard Marcus)
9. Abby the Librarian (Graphic Discoveries)
10. Audiobooker (One & Only Declaration)
11. MotherReader (Look Me In The Eye))
12. Marianne H.Nielsen (Venom)
13. Becky Levine (“In Which I Learn, Yet Again, Another Thing About Writing”)
14. Pink Me (Man who went to the far side of the moon)
15. The Well-Read Child (Sisters & Brothers AND Florida’s Famous Animals)
16. I.N.K. (Padma Venkatraman on Michael Jordan)
17. Tricia (Leonardo da Vinci)
18. WendieO (Workshop)
19. Becky (What to Do About Alice)
20. Jennie-(Cybils Round-up)
21. Charlotte

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Nonfiction Monday: Perfect Timing

Perfect Timing: How Isaac Murphy Became One of the World’s Greatest Jockeys by Patsi Trollinger (Author) and Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator) is the biography of a world-record winning rider…
 
On that spring day in 1873, Isaac made a delivery to the Owings house at the perfect time. Mr. Owings owned a stable of racehorses, and he needed to hire some jockeys.

Teach the traits of ideas and sentence fluency as students write a “racing” story.

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Poetry Friday: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud is a poem by William Wordsworth illustrated in a new way by Sami Suomalainen. A robot leaves the factory where he works…

When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students write their own robot stories.

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Wild Rose Reader.

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The Toy Farmer

The Toy Farmer  by Andrew Pelletier (Author) and Scott Nash (Illustrator) begins with a discovery…

One day, while he was poking around in the darkest back corner of the attic, Jed discovered an old wooden box. The only thing inside was a bright red toy tractor.

Teach the traits of sentence fluency and ideas as students write their own “lost and found” stories.

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