Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: Thoughts on Teacherhood by Phillip Done - I loved his first book 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny. I was so excited when I saw this at our local used bookstore. It was a quick read & so true to life in a classroom.
Do Unto Otters by Laurie Keller - The first day of class I ask students to help me come up with some guidelines for class. After that discussion I read them this book. There are so many cute plays on words... & I love it when my new students get them!
The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee by Tom Angleberger - I really liked the message of the book & loved how Angleberger ended it. I put it out for my students first thing last week & held a drawing for who would get to be the first to read it. The excited looks on there faces were precious & the winner yelled & jumped out of his seat when I pulled his name out of the basket.
from Cheryl:
This is the Tree by Miriam Moss - I found out about this book from Aimee Buckner's Non-fiction Mentor Texts session at the Choice Literacy Conference in Michigan this summer. It is a great model for writing. I had the students follow the pattern "This is the tree..." and make their own introduction poem beginning with, "This is the class that..." We posted our poems on big sticky notes.
The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco - We used this as one of the texts to help us write our class guidelines. We noticed that we are all smart in different ways, and if we work together we can create something bigger than ourselves.
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes - by Eric Litwin - Text and audio. We like singing along with this predictable book, but love the moral at the end. Seventh graders think that this text teaches us that it's okay to make mistakes as long as we progress and not regress.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth - I'm really into the characters in this series. Tris is a strong female character that is trying to find out who she is. Roth does a great job with plot development and building suspense.
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