Lise, Yes! All my students love A Child Called It! I don't mind. I usually teach reluctant readers, so if they read that, great! They love anything like that or diary type. I think they just all love drama :)
On 1/18/07, Lise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My 6th graders read the Phantom Tollbooth and we're about to start > Seedfolks > as our next lit study. > My 7/8th graders (we have multiage classes) read Bronx Masquerade and will > be reading Bull Run as a lit study. I teach integrated LA/SS so my lit > studies are usually attached to our Expeditions. > > I can't say that any one book is flying off the shelves of my room as > their > tastes are as varied as their moods. > > My 6th graders have really been into James Howe's Bunnicula series (he has > a > new one out) and the Misfits. Ben Mikelson and Louis Sacher have been > popular. > > My 7/8th graders had a teacher who was totally oblivious to YA literature > and so they are at best reluctant readers. Walter Dean Myers and Small > Steps > by Louis Sacher have been popular, The Sisterhood books, Twilight and New > Moon have been popular with some of my girls. Accidental Love by Gary Soto > has been a big hit as well. > > Do your kids read a Child Called It? My students somehow manage to get > their > hands on it and write in their response notebooks that it is their > favorite > book. I just can't figure it out. The content doesn't bother me nearly as > much as the fact that it is really awful writing. I feel the same way > about > Chicken Soup books. I wish I could find some books with the kind of drama > that attracts them that has some literary value. > > I'd love any suggestions if you have them. > > Lise > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
