Book Genre: Fiction, Rhyming, Career
Publishing Info: Cartwheel Books, Scholastic Inc.
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Summary: What Will I Be? is a cute book full of job descriptions and beautiful pictures. It takes many jobs such as: a baker, a director, a teacher, a police officer, a computer scientist, .......... ending with the president and introduces them to children with fun rhyming descriptions.
Personal Rating & Why: ****Great! This is an awesome book to introduce students to different types of careers they can have in the future. I love the photographs and the rhythm of the rhymes. It is a fun book to read and the children will love it too.
Reading Level: K-2 (1.8 AR)
Reading Interest: ages 4-8 years
Possible Uses: This book could be used to introduce Career Day or Community Helpers.
Writing: You could read the book to the children and then have them draw and write about which career they would want to be when they grow up.
Art: The children could have a dress up day. Maybe read it closer to Halloweeen and let them dress up as what they want to be when they grow up. That way you still get to dress up for Halloween and you bypass all the gory costumes.
Community: You could invite adults from the community or parents and let them give short descriptions of what their jobs require. Kind of like Show and Tell, but with people, not items.
Additional Activity: You could pick a career a day and have each child draw and write about that career. Have them make hats, badges, etc. to play the part. Let them really get a chance to get into the role of the career they have chosen.
After you have made the costumes, you could let the children do a small parade to the other classrooms to show off their hard work.
Potential Problems or Difficulties: None at this time.
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I will show you another tool to determine reading level so you can figure it out for these books that don't have AR levels!
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