I third Eve Bunting! Excellent books! Faithful Elephants is great, and powerful. I cannot read it without crying though. I also love Souper Chicken, funny book about a chicken who learns to read and saves the rest of the chickens because they can't read!
On 2/25/07, May Dartez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kim, > > I also LOVE Eve Bunting. I bought her books when I was a reading > teacher, with the > plan of using them for an author study and for making connections > between her books. > > I bought them after we had moved on to other strategies, however, and > this year I am only teaching language arts. > I have never really thought about the symbolism and metaphors in them, > however. If you have time, I would love > to hear what you and your students came up with:) > > Thanks in advance! > > May Dartez/6th/GA > On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:31 PM, kimberlee hannan wrote: > > > Our favorite author to explore is Eve Bunting. Her books tackle tough > > subjects: homelessness, riots, war, gangs, death divorce, > > immigration, in > > a very graceful way. There are no magial solutions in her books, but > > they > > always leave the reader hopeful. The kids learn her patterens quickly > > and > > search for symbols and metaphors. They brought up great discussions > > and > > more than once great responses. I started out with Rudi's Pond, and > > Fly > > Away Home. Riding the Tiger brought on a 30 minute discussion. > > > > Kim > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
