June 2020 - Page 6 of 10 - Anastasia Suen

One Little Lot: The 1-2-3s of an Urban Garden
by Diane C. Mullen (Author) and Oriol Vidal (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Count all the ways (one to ten) an urban community unites to clean up an abandoned lot. From building planter boxes to pulling weeds to planting seeds, everyone works together to transform the lot into a bountiful vegetable garden. As the garden grows, strangers become friends, eventually sharing in a special feast with the harvest they grew.

Snippet:
TWO helping hands push open
the rickets, rusting fence.
A visitor imagines what could be.
Passersby stop to talk.
Maybe, just maybe, they all say.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure
by Tony DiTerlizzi (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: Jimmy Zangwow loves his Moon Pies. His mom holds the key to the Moon Pie stash, though — and she says no treats before dinner! If only Jimmy could fly to the moon to get his own Moon Pies…

Step 1. Read aloud
Listen to the author’s read-aloud video.

Step 2. Think aloud
Talk about the book. What do you really love to eat? How far would you go to get your favorite snack?

Step 3. Write it down
Write your own story about an adventure to find your favorite snack.

Need help guiding your young writer? Use these age-appropriate writer’s workshop tips.

Month: June 2020

One Little Lot: The 1-2-3s of an Urban Garden

Families Write with Jimmy Zangwow’s Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure