Thursday, April 24, 2008

Craft Lesson 8

Babymouse: Our Hero

By Jennifer Holm

Troubled Readers

Resource Materials:

Holm, Jennifer & Holm, Matthew. Babymouse: Our Hero. New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2005.

Discussion:

There is always a chance that as teachers we are going to encounter a student who does not want to read the required reading. And as a teacher you must try every option that you have to get that student to read. One option is to use a book like Babymouse: Our Hero. With its comic book styling, the material can be delivered to a non-reader in a user-friendly format.

How to teach it:

Once students are introduced to Babymouse: Our Hero, then you can introduce them to the rest of the Babymouse series of books. While they are reading the book you can have a daily check up to see how they like the book, and to see if they noticed that by reading comic books it is actually helping them become better readers. After they have read the series it should make it easier for the student to bridge into chapter books.

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