Our class had such a great time being able to read I Survived: Hurrican Katrina together, that I'd like to see if we can purchase another class read-aloud!
We are currently on our weather unit and this text would provide to be very beneficial! Through this fictional text we will be able to learn text structures, character's actions/emotions, content specific vocabulary related to fourth grade science (weather), and much more!!
If you are able to help, we'd love for you to purchase a book. You can either purchase this book with the intent that it will be your child's or it will be a donation to our classroom library. Either way, we'd love it! If you'd rather turn in money for the book to be ordered, that would be great, too! I can take cash and will let you know when your book has been ordered.
From Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-Makers-Jennifer-Smith/dp/0316179582
Cost: $8.00
(students are able to bring their kindles, etc. to read books)
Lexile: 940
Book Blurb:
Enter the world of The Storm Makers, where there's magic behind every forecast.
What starts as an ordinary summer turns exciting and perilous for twins Ruby and Simon when strange occurrences begin happening on their farm -- sudden gusts of wind, rainstorms, and even tornado warnings -- that seem eerily timed to Simon's emotions.
Then a stranger arrives and tells the twins that Simon is a Storm Maker -- part of a clandestine group of people entrusted with controlling and taming the weather -- and that he is in great danger. Soon Simon and Ruby must race against the clock as they try to master Simon's powers in time to stop a rogue Storm Maker's treacherous -- and potentially deadly -- plans.
In this thrilling new adventure, loyalties can shift as quickly as the wind . . . and the ordinary can turn extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Has anyone offered to get the book yet?
ReplyDeletenot yet!! :)
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