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Herman Parish " The Ameila Bedeila Books"

Http://www.harpercollinschildren.com

Everyone loves Ameila Bedeila, the literal minded house keeper! When she makes a sponge cake, she puts in real sponges, when she weeds the garden, she replants the weeds, and when she picthes a tent, she throws it into the woods.

No child can resist Ameila Bedeila and her literal trips through the minefield of the english language-and no adult can fail to notice that she's usually right when she's wrong.

Other book titles include: Ameila Bedeila talks turkey, Ameila Bedeila and the cat, Ameila Bedeila's first valentine, etc...

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Author Alan Katz Http://alankatzbooks.com/pages/katzsilly.html

Book " Take me out of the bathtub"

The book was relased in May 2001. It was illustrated by David Catrow. The book includes silly dilly book parodies such as "stinky dinky diaper change." and "The yougart flies straight from my brother." There are 14 silly dilly songs in all. They are all done with a popular song everybody knows and loves. These books really get kids involved in reading books.

EDRG 3321 ch10

Read alouds are a fun way to get children of all ages involved in reading. Even the older students like books to be read to them. In classrooms teachers can create an authors corner to get kids interested in different authors. With read alouds kids can participate in listening centers. Children can be asked to predict what they think will happen next, or how the story might end. We can also ask the students how they think a certain character felt or may be feeling in a certain situation. Read alouds open many doors of opportunity for classroom discussions and group activity. This is a wonderful way to instill the love of reading in our students.

EDRG 3321 ch9

Nonfiction books are informational books as well as biographies, these books are designed to answer questions, and finding information on a person, or topic. Accuracy is the most important of a nonfiction book. This can be found by checking the authors jacket flap, or the about the author page at the back of the book. A lot of times when doing research nonfiction books are not fun to read because you have to do it for your grade. It can be reassuring knowing that the book you choose was a valid fiction book. Books can be nonfiction and fun to read. If you are interested in dinosaurs, You can read for fun a factual book on dinosaurs. The book I liked was the story of Jane Goodall's dog in the hospital who helped heal her patients with his compassion for people. In checking the jacket sleeve we found the book was based on a true story which fell under the guidelines of nonfiction. There are a lot of nonfiction books which can get students involved in reading and capture their interests while learning something new.

EDRG 3321 ch8

Chapter eight is about fiction. Fiction is a fun subject. Fiction is anything that you could possibly imagine. Fiction comes in four types: Contemporary, Historical, Fantasy, and Science fiction. My favorite type of fiction is fantasy. The type that involves a princess living in a magical kingdom where there are nights, trolls, witches, wizards, and a hero. Fiction stories involve a setting, where the story takes place, the plot, a series of events with a beginning, middle and end. Fiction also has conflicts where Character vs. self, society, nature, supernatural, or even technology. Fiction stories can be told from different points of view, as in the fractured fairy tale the three little pigs.

EDRG 3321 ch6

The subject I enjoyed the most in this chapter was the fractured fairy tales. This subject was the perfect way to get a student involved with traditional literature. As a teacher we can introduce the traditional fairy tales to the students and then show them what is called the fractured fairytale. One of the most popular one is the story of the three little pigs. Everybody knows the story of the three little pigs, but it is a lot of fun to hear the story told from the wolf's point of view. We can also use this to open up other activities. we can turn the classroom into a courthouse putting the wolf on trial. Students learn a great deal when they get involved with the story working together.

EDRG 3321 ch5

Chapter five was about poetry. Poetry is one of my favorite genres of literature. I grew up reading the shel silverstein books. My favorite poem in that book was the story of ticklish tom.
The best element about children's poetry is that they have a rhythm and a rhyme which engages the reader and has their full attention. Poetry can take any shape you can make with the words. Poetry doesn't always have to rhyme. It can also appeal to your emotions, it can be happy, sad, serious, or even just for fun. you can enjoy reading poetry from any culture. I had my girls enjoying poetry at a young age. On of the first poetry books I bought for them was "Are you quite polite" by Alan Katz and David catrow. My girls really enjoyed the silly stories. One of my favorite stories from this book is "Drinkin' at the Fountain".

Oh, don't put your mouth
On the waterspout
When your drinkin ' at the fountain every day
Your breath's like trout
We can do without
And your tongue is a wormy germ buffet!

What a smell
I'm not well
So I'll yell, Please get away!
And from now on I am trusting
That you wont be so disgusting
(And stop drinkin' from the toilet, by the way!)