Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paola

Book Genre: Informational Fiction

Publishing Info: Scholastic Inc, 32 pages

Awards or honors received: None

Summary: This book is about two little boys who want to pop some popcorn. They were curious about popcorn so they decide to look it up. The author uses word bubbles and these two little boy character to explain facts about popcorn and teaches readers about the history. After reading a lot about popcorn, and learning lot of different facts, the boys decide that the best thing about popcorn is eating it!

Personal rating and reason for rating: **** Good. Very informational, only a read aloud for younger grades, but would be an awesome picture books for 3rd and 4th grade also

Reading level: 4.3

Interest level: 1-5

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study (reading and writing across the curriculum): For younger children, this story can be used to show all of the cool things you can find out about something when you are curious. Looking words up in the dictionary, encyclopedia or even on the internet can be great ways to look up words and topics you are unfamiliar about. For older grades, this is also a good book to talk about popcorn, which is a very interesting food with an fun history.

Potential Problems or Difficulties: Students need to know how to read the book and follow the speech bubbles to understand the order of the dialogue.

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