The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake is excellent! How old is she? She might like the diary type books like It Happened To Nancy, Annie's Baby, Go Ask Alice A Child Called It is really engaging as well
On 9/2/07, Tena Linsbeck-Perron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Encouraging readers...one book at a time!" I need to find books for a > new student. She is an older but struggling reader in the 6th grade. > She looks like a high schooler and is pretty enough to be termed > stunning. We clicked right away. However, she has huge deficits in her > reading and writing and is currently at a 2nd to 3rd grade level in > both. I have few HI/Lo books that are adequate and I want to help her > feel more confident quickly as she is just beginning middle school. We > are a New England coastal suburban school mostly Caucasian. My new > student is one of only a handful of black/African American students. > What book's would you suggest? I have the Buford series but it does > not reflect this child's environment. Thank you > > _______________________________________________ > 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
