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Bookswithtea
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Posted: June 26 2006 at 8:57am \| IP Logged

This book is recommended by CHC in their 4th grade lesson plans and apparently has reading comprehension questions along with it. The catalogue makes it sound like a good story. Has anyone read this book? I'd like to know if its a living book or more of a moralistic tale that pretends to be a living book, if you kwim??

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Posted: June 26 2006 at 10:26am \| IP Logged

I can't tell you much because we had to shelve it. It was way over my dd's head! We stuck with it for several chapters, but I could tell that my 9yodd was getting nothing out of it. She is a decent reader, not accelerated, but the old-fashioned writing was like a foreign language to her.

I've heard that we're not the only ones to have this experience. I don't know how much of a living book I would say it is; perhaps on par with Little Apostle on Crutches, which I loved. Ann in Tucson

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Posted: June 26 2006 at 10:38am \| IP Logged

I read it aloud and my boys really liked it. When they beg to hear the next chapter, I know it's a keeper. It is very old fashioned, that's why I think it is better as a read aloud. The moral is very evident but it's beautiful and engaging. It captured my boys' hearts and I'm sure it had a positive impact on them.

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Posted: June 26 2006 at 11:20am \| IP Logged

It was over my ds's head also. So, we put it away. But, I continued to read it and I loved it. It's very old-fashioned and heart-warming.

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Posted: June 26 2006 at 2:52pm \| IP Logged

We used it with our 4th grade boy who did not write much. He reads tons of history but I had a hard time getting him to read other literature. He would never do a narration or write anything. This was a gentle way to ease him into thinking beyond the literally obvious. There are a number of inferences that need to be made to answer the questions and we were able to read and discuss it. It was not an easy book and I often read it aloud with him after he had read it to himself. He had to really work at it (he learned the idea of looking up unfamiliar words in the vocabulary list BEFORE reading the story), but he did enjoy the story and we gained a lot from the exercise. There is plenty of dictionary and vocabulry work so we didn't worry about doing any other dictionary or vocabulary work either.

It was a great tool to help me discuss literature with him and for him to begin to read between the lines.

Overall, he really liked it and the effort he put into understanding the story really gave him a boost in confidence. He has been more inclined to pick up books now and seems to comprehend the indirect messages better. I plan to do it with my next ds who will read any how to book on science regardless of level or vocabulary requirements - but will not, without some insistence on my part, read any literature despite a collection of living books in a variety of subjects.

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Posted: June 26 2006 at 3:11pm \| IP Logged

Well, it sounds encouraging overall. Thank you all for the review!

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