{"id":5099,"date":"2012-01-10T01:10:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T07:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2012-01-10T01:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T07:10:37","slug":"golden-dragon-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/golden-dragon-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dragon Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Book of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/dragon.small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/books\/415\/pb\/golden_dragon_parade\">Golden Dragon Parade<\/a> by Anastasia Suen<br \/>\nHoliday easy reader<\/p>\n<p>Chinese New Year is here.<br \/>\nCome along to the Golden Dragon Parade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Copyright:<\/strong> 2011<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guided Reading level:<\/strong> B<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intervention Level:<\/strong> 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>DRA Level:<\/strong> 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 16 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Bebop Books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome in the Year of the Dragon on January 23rd with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activityvillage.co.uk\/chinese_new_year.htm\">stories and games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy these Chinese New Year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apples4theteacher.com\/holidays\/chinese-new-year\/\">crafts, puzzles and games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Make a <a href=\"http:\/\/crafts.kaboose.com\/dragon.html\">Chinese New Year Dragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Use these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/p\/goldendragonparade_tg.mhtml\">Golden Dragon Parade lesson plans<\/a> with your class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/books\/416\/pb\/el_desfile_del_dragon_dorado\">Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/dragon.sp.small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Fcm0lxObL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316040509\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0316040509\">The Very Fairy Princess<\/a><br \/>\nby Julie Andrews (Author), Emma Walton Hamilton (Author) and Christine Davenier (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is put on my crown.<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter Book of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61YTUKYFpLL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/038573963X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=038573963X\">Calvin Coconut: Kung Fooey<\/a><br \/>\nby Graham Salisbury (Author) and Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)<br \/>\n144 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Calvin Coconut&#8217;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\u2014Calvin&#8217;s babysitter Stella is learning how to drive. She&#8217;s got a lead foot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\nBefore lunch at school that day, right in the middle of our silent reading time, in Mr. Purdy&#8217;s class, this new kid walked in with Mrs. Leonard, the principal.<br \/>\nI looked up.<br \/>\nWhoa!<br \/>\nI stopped breathing.<br \/>\nThe whole class did.<br \/>\nThe new kid looked us over, his eyes scrunched.<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Study: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/x4pCxg\">Children Prefer eBooks<\/a> (but remember less with &#8220;enhanced&#8221; ebooks) (via @eBookNewser)<\/p>\n<p>Peskin to Head <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/yUWBc8\">FSG Books for Young Readers<\/a> (via @publisherswkly)<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myubam.com\/thumbnails\/670012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --> My NEW chapter book is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myubam.com\/ecommerce\/details.asp?sid=NEW&amp;gid=131405690&amp;title=All-Star+Cheerleaders%3A+Save+the+Best+for+Last%2C+Abby+%28Book+2%29&amp;sqlwhere=+new+%3D+%271%27\">Save the Best for Last, Abby<\/a> (All-Star Cheerleaders)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/golden-dragon-parade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golden Dragon Parade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13,17,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-anastasia-suen","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-ebooks","category-literacy","category-news","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}