Fitzgerald, John, Lyn Fitzgerald, and Pam Posey. Barnaby's Birthday. New York: SRA/McGraw-Hill, 1993.This book is about and young boy who is about to experience another exciting birthday. His parents have planned his entire birthday and he is simply awaiting for his friends to arrive. As his friends start showing up, they do all the exciting things of a traditional birthday; open presents, eat cake, play outside, sing songs, and play some more.
Strategy Connection: This book would be perfect for a sketch to stretch response activity for the children because this way they will be able to grasp memories from their prior knowledge of remembering one of their own birthdays and draw a picture of what they remember their good times were. The students would get a piece of paper and either draw a picture a memory of one of their own birthdays, or they could draw a picture of something they like Barnaby doing on his birthday from the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Barnabys-Birthday-Voyages-John-Fitzgerald/dp/0383036186/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223610705&sr=1-1
LaRochelle, David, and Richard Egielski. The End. New York, NY: Aurtor A. Levine Books, 2007.
This book puts an interesting twist on the traditional fairy tale. The story starts with, “The End,” and then tells the story of a prince and princess living happily ever after backwards. The way the text is formatted leaves students hanging at the end of each page.
Strategy Connection: This book would be great to use in an activity where students make predictions about what is going to happen next in the story. Since the students all are familiar with the traditional fairy tale, having the students use their own imagination and thinking of their own twist to the end will be fun for them. They could also draw a picture to go along with their text.
http://www.amazon.com/End-David-LaRochelle/dp/0439640113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223611579&sr=1-1
Hoberman, Mary Ann. The Seven Silly Eaters. San Diego, CA: Bownder P. This book is about seven children who are picky eaters. They don’t agree on anything and all have favorite foods. The mother has trouble pleasing them all so she runs around the kitchen busy as can be trying to prepare the food and drinks the children enjoy.
Strategy Connection: This book would be a great tool to have students visualize the text. An activity they could do is have the teacher read only the text and have to students draw out the kitchen and how crazy it gets in the kitchen. The students will be able to paint a vivid picture in their head through the text.
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