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Leaves Janet Lawler

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  Title: Leaves Author: Janet Lawler illustrator: Lindsay Dale-Scott Paper engineered by: Yoojin Kim Genre: informational nonfiction and paper engineered   Teacher evaluation: this is a very fun book to read. it is also very informative about what leaves are and how they add to our environment. this is a great book to read in the classroom, and it helps for us to show our students facts with it still being fun.  Summary: A leaf does many things even if it seems simple. It has chlorophyll. When fall comes the leaves change colors. With less daylight the colors change. Critters hide in the leaves, and they also eat the leaves. Leaves rustle while animals run over them for food. Chipmunks go all over the leaves getting food for winter. Mushrooms come on the floor from leaf covered locations. Deer eat mushrooms because they are sometimes poisonous. They use leaves to burrow. When animals go into their deep winter sleep they get cozy with leaves, and the leaves change colors....
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This Old Man: Poetry

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 This Old Man Title: "This Old Man" Illustrated by: Carol Jones Genre: Poetry age group: 5-7  Teacher Evaluation: This is a good book when learning about things. You can point to the things he is drumming on. It is also teaching counting so it could be used for EC education when they are beginning to learn their numbers.  Summary: This old man plays with drum sticks, so he begins playing nick nack on a drum, shoe, knee, door, hive, sticks, heaven, gate, line, and a hen. He played "Nick nack paddy wack give a dog a bone" on all of these things while counting to ten, and rhyming. 
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The Giver

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Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Genre: Fantasy and science fiction Awards: Newbery award Teacher Evaluation: This is a great book. It could definitely not be read in elementary school because they will probably not be able to fully comprehend it. When i first read this book, it was in 6th grade, so if I teach 6th grade then I would probably read this book. It also has a movie that you can watch towards the end of the book.  Summary: The Giver is about Jonas a boy who lives in a society that has no war, fear, pain or hate. Each family has two children, and they are born from someone else. The person who births them is a full-time pregnant person. everyone functions as a society with jobs that are assigned to them. Jonas lived with his mother and father. Jonas did not care what job he was going to have. His society is black and white because color represented pain. They get assigned jobs at 12 and Jonas got assigned the Giver. The giver gets memories from the past good and bad. W...
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