My Book of the Week
Golden Dragon Parade by Anastasia Suen
Holiday easy reader
Chinese New Year is here.
Come along to the Golden Dragon Parade.
- Copyright: 2011
- Guided Reading level: B
- Intervention Level: 2
- DRA Level: 2
- Paperback: 16 pages
- Publisher: Bebop Books
Book Activities:
Welcome in the Year of the Dragon on January 23rd with stories and games.
Enjoy these Chinese New Year crafts, puzzles and games.
Make a Chinese New Year Dragon.
Use these Golden Dragon Parade lesson plans with your class.
Also available in Spanish
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Picture Book of the Day
The Very Fairy Princess
by Julie Andrews (Author), Emma Walton Hamilton (Author) and Christine Davenier (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Her friends and family may not believe in fairies, but Geraldine knows, deep down, that she is a VERY fairy princess. From morning to night, Gerry does everything that fairy princesses do…
Snippet: The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is put on my crown.
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Chapter Book of the Day
Calvin Coconut: Kung Fooey
by Graham Salisbury (Author) and Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)
144 pages
Booktalk: Calvin Coconut’s fourth grade class meets Benni Obi, a weird and likable new kid. Benny brags about knowing kung fu, wears mirrored sunglasses, eats worms, crickets, and chocolate-covered scorpions, and says all the wrong things to bully Tito. Uh-oh. Meanwhile, the neighborhood kids and pets clear the road—Calvin’s babysitter Stella is learning how to drive. She’s got a lead foot.
Snippet:
Before lunch at school that day, right in the middle of our silent reading time, in Mr. Purdy’s class, this new kid walked in with Mrs. Leonard, the principal.
I looked up.
Whoa!
I stopped breathing.
The whole class did.
The new kid looked us over, his eyes scrunched.
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Literary Links
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My NEW chapter book is Save the Best for Last, Abby (All-Star Cheerleaders)
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