Carrer Day

The book Career Day by Anne Rockwell is about a class that is having a career day at school. The children in Mrs. Madoff's classroom take turns introducing their family member for career day. Every visitor has an interesting job to talk about and together the class learns about all of the different jobs people do.  This book gives the reader a first person view on what younger students think about career day.




This book is a good book to teach the making connections reading strategy because many students can relate to having career day at school. This book could be used to teach text to self because text to self is a connection between the book and the readers feelings or life experiences. To teach students how to make text to self connections the teacher could have a chart with three questions and the students could answer the questions on their own sheet of paper. The questions are What does the story remind me of, has something familiar happened to me, and have you ever had the same feelings as the character. When students are asked these type of questions it allows them to make a connection with the characters in the story.
Here's an example of a chart that could be used to help students make connections. We found this activity at this text to self activity at this website http://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269628546782/.

We believe this book would go along very good with this activity because most kids can relate to career day and thinking about what they want to be when they grown up.

A Home for the President

Do you know when the White House was built?  In the book The White House by Jennifer Silate you will learn the answer to this question and many more interesting facts about the White House. For example, the White House was designed by an Irish born architect and President John Adams was the first president to live in the White House. This book also talks about how the White House was destroyed in the War of 1812 and it was rebuilt in 1817. When you read this book you will find many other facts about the White House, which is the home of our president.



The book the White House can be used to teach standard SSKH2f which states that the student will identify important American symbols and explain their meaning. While working on this standard one of the important American symbols is the White House. Before reading the book The White House you could have the students ask questions about the White House and see if their questions were answered in the book or have the students guess when the White House was built, who was the first president to stay there or has it ever been destroyed. This book goes along with the standard SSKH2F because it teaches the students the importance of the White House. For example, this book states that, "The White House is more than the president's home and workplace it is an important part of American history and a symbol of America's place in the world."

We believe this book goes along with the standard very good. This book goes along with the standard SSKH2, because it is one out of a series of books that teaches students about important American symbols such as the American Flag, the Bald Eagle, and the Statue of Liberty. This book also teaches a lot of interesting facts about the White House.