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Fancy Nancy

By Jane O'Connor

Illustrated by Robin P. Glasser

This book is an interesting and exciting book to read to the students during the Christmas Holidays or to the class in the month of December. It is about a little girl who likes everything to be fancy, even her words. She loves all the fancy things about Christmas. But, when she breaks the Christmas tree topper that she bought with her money, she worried but then grandpa arrives and told her to improvise with what she has. We all know improvise is a fancy word.

This book would be used for Pre-K or Kindergarten students

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20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

By:Jack Prelutsky and Meilo So

This book is about all differnt kind of poetry that children love. This book is filled with lots of fun poetry to read and enjoy. The best age suitable for this book is children from 4-9 and sometimes even adults want to read poetry.

Nonfiction-Childrens Literature

Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul

By: Jack Canfield, Mark V. Hansen, Patty Hansen,

Irene Dunlap

This book is a fun filled story book for children ages 5-8 years old. It has stories about family ties, helping neighbors, and lasting friendships. This book can help guide the children as they explore their relationships with family, friends, and begin to develop thier own personal identity.

This book is good to be used with grades K-3

Shared Reading

Shared Reading had some interesting things. I noticed as I was reading the passage, that we as educators do that with our students at school. I for example, have read to one of my first grade classes that I work with and I asked them questions, they were able to make connections, to tell what was going to happen next, and also tell me what was going on at that moment in time.

One thing that I really enjoyed about the passage was it talked about a little girl from the age of 2 years old, and how she always carried a book. She would ask her family to read it to her. As her mom read it to her, she started to give inferences on the book. She pointed out to the illustrations and say some words. As time went by, she was able to enhance her learning and reading skills.

So overall, I thing it is a great idea to continue Shared Reading along with Read Alouds with our students and children at home.