Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Leaving Morning by Angela Johnson

Book Genre: Realistic Fiction

Publishing Info: Scholastic Inc, 32 pages

Awards or honors received: None

Summary: A family is moving away. The book describes in detail the feelings and emotions the children had while saying goodbye to everyone they know, and pack up the moving truck.

Personal rating and reason for rating: *** Good. This book is an awesome read aloud.

Reading level: 2.9

Interest level: K-3 (lower grades)

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study (reading and writing across the curriculum): This would be a good book to read before a writing lesson on adding detail, feeling or emotions.

Potential Problems or Difficulties: I don’t see any problems or difficulties.

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