This was such a cute book! I loved it, and I know that children will love it! Not only is the story good, but the pictures that go along with it enhance it! I think this book offers a lot of useful information about Blackbeard, but at the same time, includes a little humor that will younger children will find entertaining. I really like how at the end it has a section that tells what the three kids, the “Time Warp Trio”, ended up doing after they returned, which also allows a little bit of humor. The sentence structure is really age appropriate. The sentences are not too short, but not too long. This story keeps young children’s interest, and they want to continue reading it.
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Can you see how all of those “think alouds” from the Reading Teacher article can be modeled by doing a shared reading of this book? You could focus on comprehension, vocabulary, text structure and text feature shared reading components…any ideas for specific examples?
Comment by Beth Frye — February 10, 2010 @ 2:23 pm