Picture books for big kids
The Scholastic Book fair is at my school this week, YAY!!! It's always a lot of fun (and a lot of work) and one of the best things is, I get to read all the new books. This morning, I spent the morning reading some of the new picture books and there were some really good ones that I thought could be used as mentor texts for the bigger kids. One thing we find at our school is that we want our kids to do research projects, but having them write reports or give oral presentations (even using technology) seems dated and artificial. When I read this book "Abraham Lincoln His Wit and Wisdom from A-Z" by Alan Schroeder, I thought "This is something my kids could do!" It's all information about Abraham Lincoln but instead of being in chronological order, it's in alphabetical order. So G is for Gettysburg Address (a famous speech Lincoln made), The Globe Tavern (where Abraham and Mary Lincoln were married), and Good Samaritan (Lincoln did kind things for o...