Monday, June 1, 2009

Frederick by Leo Lionni

Genre: Animal Stories, Classics
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Awards/Honors : Caldecott Honor
Pages - 28

Summary:

While the other field mice were busy working day and night gathering food for the upcoming winter. Frederick sat in the sun, staring at the meadow gathering words. When winter came and the food supplies started running low, the other mice remembered that Frederick was gathering words ,and encouraged him to share with them. Frederick shared his words and the other mice realized that Frederick is a poet.

Personal rating and explanation:
Great Book: This book is very entertaining. It is easy for the children to understand the concept of others working hard and others setting around and doing nothing.

Reading level: 3.8
Interest level: K-2

Integrated unit:
Reading: This book can be used in guided reading to teach the students how to read phrase or chunk together parts of sentences in order to read with expression.

Potential problem or difficulties:
This book will be too hard for a low level reader

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