MORE new stuff?
Gees... more new stuff? Who writes these books? How can anyone possibly keep up? Well, I'm here to help! Do you have to teach your students about text features? Well, I found a book today that your boys (and probably some of the girls) will be falling over themselves to get a look at. It's called "Super Basketball Infographics" by Jeff Savage. Each two page spread has a different kind of graphical element with facts about basketball. The graphs are visually interesting (using size to relate proportion) as well as being vibrantly colorful but the information was also very compelling. And the variety of graphical presentation was staggering! This is going to be a great addition to your classroom library (although it will probably disappear pretty fast. Better buy two!). The second one I read is by Louis Sachar, (famous as the writer of "Holes" and "The Wayside School" series). This one is science fiction and it has...