Sunday, September 30, 2007

This is the Teacher by Rhonda Gowler Greene

"This is the Teacher" is a hilarious book for children probably up to second or third grade. In the classroom, I would use this book as something I would read on the first day of school, to help lighten up the tense situation. This book is about all the crazy and unexpecting things that happen in an elementary school. The way the book is written and organized is so different and fun for everyone to read. It's written in sort of a rhythm, and it flows from one page to the next. It's hard to explain without an example, so for example the first page simply says, "This is the teacher all ready for school." Then on the second page it says, "These are the students who rush through the door, who drop sacks of lunches that smash! on the floor and topple the teacher all ready for school." So the book continues by building the story from page to page, but keeping the sentence from the page before. By the very last page, there is a long poem to describe the day at school. I just thought it was a fun book to read that was unlike anything I had really seen before. I also can't forget about the illustrations, by Mike Lester, which were all very detailed and showed the hilarity that the book was trying to portray.

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