Genre-Biography

Description: This book is about Martin Luther King Jrs. life with pictures and simplifed information for younger children to understand his story. It is meant to bring some of the biggest life stories to the smallest readers.

Connection to genre: This book is connected to the genre biography because a biography is a nonfiction account of a real person's life written by someone else. This book was made to tell MLK Jrs story because he can't tell it himself anymore.

Use in the classroom: This would be a great book to keep in your classroom library for Martin Luther King Day to explain to your students who MLK was if they dont know already. The pictures in this book are clear and you are really able to tell what is going on the story with them for learners who need visuals. These books are also just great for introduction to historical people or background knowledge for them about this person.

Genre-Realistic Fiction

Description: Avery has some big emotions going on that she is having a hard time understanding. When she got her new crayon box and all her crayons break she starts to frantically use them but she soons realizes her crayons have personalitlies and feelings. Throughout the book each crayon helps her figure out her emotions and how a color can mean for an emotion. They show her how to use her love of coloring to help balance her emotions and focus on positivity.

Connection to genre: Realistic fiction is consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. Those stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people. Now talking crayons isn't exact real but to a five year old I am sure they have the imagination to believe their crayons are talking to them. But it is really connected to the genre because everyone in life goes through the process of learning and expressing their emotions and this book is showing everyone what that can look and feel like sometimes espically for children.

Use in the classroom: This would be a good book for a classroom library because it has the message of even though things may not go right in life sometimes that doesn't mean you should give up. Keep your head up, you are strong, it has such a positive message evryone needs a reminder sometimes of that.

Genre-Informational

Description: The Who Would Win? series of books goes over different animals and what they would do if they every encountered eachother in a fight. It gives you information of each animal throughout the book and then at the end you find out who wins!

Connection to genre: This book is conneted to the genre informational because it is giving information about each animal but in a way to really grab you attention. It is greta for younger grrades so they can keep their attention on the book.

Use in the classroom: This would be a great use in the classroom if you are ever going over in science about different animals, you can read this to our students and they will be getting information about each animal and then seeing who would win in the end. You can have them take notes on each anaimla as you go through the book or ask questions at the end to see what the students learned about the animals.

Genre-Fantasy

Description: Owl had big dreams of being a knight ever since he was born, he dreamed about it every night. Knights began to disappear so Owl applied for his dream to be a knight. Knight school was hard for Owl. When Owl had to step up to his title as a knight he showed he could do it. He did it his way, he became friends with the scary dragon. Everyone was proud of Owl. He never gave up on his dream.

Connection to genre: This book is connected to the genre fantasy because and owl would never be a knight and become freinds with a dragon. But it goes into the category because of those characters and the story behind it.

Use in the classroom: This can be used in the classroom as a read a loud one day for when you want to remind your students that even the smallest people can have the biggest dreams and if they keep working for it through out life they can achieve what they want. That is a awesome message to bring to any student no matter what age.

Genre-Poetry

Description: This book goes through talking about all the places you will go through in life. It takes about the journey life will take you through, the challenges you will face, and the joys that will come from the journey of life as well.

Connection to genre: This book is connected to poetry because a poem is a piece that has the nature of both speech and song to where it always sounds like it is rhyming. Dr. Seuss books are some of the first poetry I heard as child.

Use in the classroom: This is a great book for any classroom to show that there is so much more to go through in life and there will be bumps and curves but the places you will go in life are special and it is a great reminder to just keep moving forward.

Genre-Mystery

Description: The detective dog Nell had a great sense of smell. She solved crime after crime with her sense of smell. Nell helped her person Peter out a lot. Peter was always loosing his stuff. She found everything she was on the hunt for. Children read stories to Nell when she went to school. She could smell everything. Then one day Nell smelled the wrong smell one day. The books were all gone.She started sniffing and searching for clues. Everyone followed her on her search for the books. She found the thief who stole all the books! The book thief was sad and apologized he just wanted to read them and borrow them. Nell had an idea and took everyone to the library to where the thief could borrow books by not stealing them. 

Connection to genre:This book is connected to the genre mystery because Nell goes on a journey with everyone to find the missing books. They go all over town on the search. It is a mystery of who took them. But Nell in the edn as she always does solves the mystery of the missing books.

Use in the classroom: This could be used in the classroom library for a read aloud one day. It is a fun story to introduce the genre mystery to the class.