How about some of Jean Craighead George's novels, like the My Side of the Mountain
trilogy, The Talking Earth, or Tree Castle Island?
Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
basyak10@hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:00:58 -0500
> From: shelly.kraal@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Book Request - Fiction with Species Adaptation/Survival Techniques
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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> The specials team at my elementary school has been in charge of extra
> tutoring for 5th grade students who are at risk of failing the state
> standardized tests. We have already tutored math and reading, and are
> getting ready to tutor for science. Rather than pulling those students out
> of their specials times for tutoring (thus forcing them to miss some of the
> subjects that they tend to actually enjoy while at school), we have decided
> to take a different approach for the science "tutoring". Each specials
> teacher is going to go cross-curricular and add a science component to their
> regular lessons. So, the music teacher is talking about sound waves, the
> drama teacher is having them act out the natural cycles, they are drawing
> the water cycle in art, etc... I have been thinking about doing a
> read-aloud for these students leading up to this last test, because they are
> already nearly brain-dead at this point and need to relax. I have been
> charged with covering adaptation and survival techniques. I would like to
> read some sort of fiction to them, but have no idea what books might fit
> this guideline. I know that when I personally come across a fact in a novel
> that I'm reading for pleasure, I actually tend to file that information away
> in my "neat-o" part of the brain, to be pulled out for certification exams
> and games of Trivial Pursuit. I'm hoping this less traditional approach
> might do the same for these students. Anyone got any suggestions of books?
> Even if I don't have something in my library, this is something that I could
> justify purchasing for my personal library. Thanks for the assistance!
>
> Shelly Kraal, Librarian
> Vickery Elementary, Flower Mound, TX
> shelly.kraal@gmail.com
>
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