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I love sports so I chose Peyton Manning as the author for this profile. Peyton Manning is a Superbowl champion, and current quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. The book is called family huddle and is a story about Peyton, and his family going on a trip to see their grandparents. Every time they stop to rest or stretch they play football with their father. The story is based on childhood memories of the Manning family and is a great read for kids. The artwork is excellent and helps get the readers attention.

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Naomi Shihab Nye is an author from from san antonio who writes poetry mainly intended for an older audience, However she has written some great children's books. The book that I read was called Benito's Dream Bottle. When Benito's grandmother tells him that she hasn't dreamed in a long time, Benito goes to find out where dreamsvcome from. The people don't give him a definite answer so he comes up with an idea that "dreams really come from the Dream Bottle," which is located between the chest and the stomach and pours dreams into the head when a person lies down. So his grandmother can dream again he plans to fill up her bottle, Benito helps her think hard about everything she has ever seen to get her dreams back. This book has great water colors and is very visually appealing.

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Loreen Leedy is a great to keep in my mind for your classroom because she does so many subject books. She has children's math, social studies, language arts, and science books. Crazy Like a Fox is a simile story where rufus the sneaky thief who steals from the other animals in town. This story is filled with great computer artwork and can help introduce similes to your class in a fun way.

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Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist from south texas who paints images that she remembers in her life growing up as well as some other beautiful contemporary artwork. She is also a great children's author the two books that I read were Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia and In My Family/En Mi Familia. I love these books because they are of her life growing up in her mexican-ameican household, the people in her family remind me of growing up at my own house. It is enjoyable to read and see pictures that you can relate to in book.

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Joe hayes is hailed as one of the great bilingual story tellers of our time, his book The Day in Snowed Tortillas is awesome. It is about a man who finds a bag of gold dropped by thieves and takes it home to his wife. His wife knows that if the robbers find out that they have the gold her husband will ruin it and give it back. So she comes up with a way to trick her husband and the robbers. She stays up all night making tortillas and throws them all over the yard and when her husband wakes up she tells him that it snowed tortillas. The husband doesn't believe her so she convinces him that he has to go to school and learn that it does happen, so he goes to school. The robbers come as expected because the husband told the whole town about the gold he found. When the robbers ask the wife where the gold is she said not to believe her husband because he was crazy. he robbers wait for the man to get home then they ask him he tells them my wife hid it "right wife" he says, the wife ssays that he never said anything. Then the man says "you remember it was the day before it snowed tortillas, and the same day you made me go to school." The robbers left thinking he was crazy.

chapter 13 literature circles

I really think that using literature circles in the classroom is a good idea, the students get to read and then write or discuss within a group what ideas and feelings they have towards the book. Literature circles may present the student with a different outlook on the book based on what their peers had to say. This makes reading less of a chore and more pleasurable to read. Lit. circles can also be a way of getting kids to enjoy reading, they can choose a book that they all want to read and it will be enjoyable fro them because it is what they wanted to read. Think about it this way when kids watch a movie that is popular that every kid wants to see the first thing they do is tell all their friends about it. If we implement lit. circles we will be expanding their literacy and allow them to have fun with it. Literature circles are an excellent way to get kids to read for enjoyment and as a future teacher will use this in my classroom no matter what grade level I am teaching.

Chapter 11 guided reading

During Our shared reading lesson in class I found myself not paying attention to what I had just read. I'm not sure if it was the sound of the other people's voices but, at the end I had to lean over to the person next to me and ask them to clarify for me what we just read. I personally don't think that I will use shared reading to much in my classroom because it might frustrate some of my students and puts them on the spot to read. I always think about the struggling reader whenever I do a lesson, read aloud or activity and shared reading will probably scare them and as we all know in elementary everyone wants to be the best and will point out each others flaws. Guided reading is great it allows the teacher to work with the students and monitor and do mini assessments with each student and give them the support thy need in the area they are struggling in.

Read Alouds

Read alouds are a great way to spark interest in students as well as model great reading straegies that they can use in their personal reading time. I agree with the chapter that read alouds are essential for all ages and that it is a way to brig the story to life and give it a voice that the students will listen to. The read aloud video we saw in class was very informative on how we should not conduct a read aloud. Read alouds allow you as a teacher to introduce literature to your classroom that otherwise may have been missed by your students or open up and stimulate critical thinking skills by your students.

Chapter 9

Nonfiction is a genre that I like more now as an adult than when I was in grade school. I really enjoy reading biographies and war literature which is nonfictional at it's core, but there are nonfiction books that are geared towards younger readers that are great to read. The aspect I think is most appealing about the nonfiction genre is that it factual and took place at one time or another. The purpose of this genre is to provide the reader with information on a certain person, place or topic. The nonfiction books that read lie textbooks do not in my opinion build interest in the subject they push the reader away. The books sholdbe filled with pictures of the actual places, people, maps or anything that is a visual.

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I stumble across Cherie Bennet and her book Zink, it is abpout a ten year old girl named becky who is diagnosed with lukemia. Becky is going through radiation therapy and juggli9ng school at the ame time whichreally takes a toll on her. While being treated she is visited by three zebras who help her live her life to the fullest eventhough she is dying. They show her the true meaning of courage along the way. It is a powerful story and although some parts are fictitious it was inspired by the true story of a lukemia patient. The author presents the story in a meaningful way and is a good read for anyone.

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If you give a mouse a cookie by LAura Numeroff was one of my favorite books to read when I was in elementary school. Laura Numeroff's books are very imaginative and can entice kids to want to read for fun rather than for school. I feel literature and books that allow kids to see how fun reading can be are the most important types. All of the books written by her are fun and silly and allows the reader to imagine all the possibilities that could happen if you give a pig a pancake or give a cat a cupcake. All of her books are also visually appealing to the reader, they are mostly done by felicia bond.