Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
ISBN-13:9780027772203ISBN:0027772209
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780689717383ISBN:0689717385
Description: Gammell, Stephen. Very Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780590477901ISBN:0590477900
Description: Gammell, Stephen. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Caldecott honor book. Bottom right corner of book dog-eared. Small tear in bottom of spine. 1-3/4" rip in back First Scholastic Printing, June 1993--from copyright page. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date Published: 1993
Description: Gammell, Stephen. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor shelf and edgewear. Compliments of Cheerios on inside cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I really enjoyed this story. It is a about a large family who live in two different places. They come to visit each other once a year. The author starts out the book describing one family (from Virgina) packing up their things and piling into a car together to drive all day and night to see the other part of their family. Once they arrive they are so estatic to see each other that they can't stop hugging or talking with each other. It talks about how they make room to house both families. The auther describes the different things the families help each other with and how they help enhance each others lives.
I loved this book because I think it does a good job of explaining a family that covers a lot of different categories. They are big families, but all the things they do together are normal things that kids can relate to (sharing beds, meals, talking in small groups, playing and laughing). In today's world many people may feel like they are being inconvenienced when family is staying with them. This author made it seem like it was a delight and that both the host family and the visiting family were lucky to have each other. When I read this book to my students this week they not only thought it was hilarious but they were also able to relate in many different ways."
"The Relatives Came by, Cynthia Rylant 1. Brief Summary This book is about a summer full of visiting from Relatives that live in Virginia. The book was very descriptive of what the family did. The family did things such as eat yummy food, play games, fix broken things, they had picnics, and also played music for weeks and weeks. Even though they were sad to leave at the end of the summer, they always new that next summer they would be doing it again. 2. Potential Audience The book demonstrates a fiction genre. The topic is of family togetherness, and working together. The reading levels are for a transitional reader. 3. Specific Curricular Uses Read aloud for a class participation discussion and for less fluent readers. Independent reading for the more fluent students. 4. Social Issues the book addresses The distance between families is a factor in this story, but they all overcome the distance by visiting each other during the summer months. 5. Specific Literary Elements the book demonstrates Book spoke in a first person narrative. The images were colorful and whimsical. The characters were stereotypical flat characters. 6. Interactions and Counteractions of text and image; How does the illustration help tell the story. The dialogue was clear, but pictures helped the reader visualize the scene. Creates images to reference the characters and story and make the words come alive."
"The Relatives Came is a story about a family from Virginia who packs their bags and takes a summer trip to visit family. Upon arrival family members hug one another and are overfilled with joy to reunite. Their days are spent fixing broken things, gardening, eating strawberries and melons, and spending time together. When it is time to return home, they are sad and realize how much they will miss one another. However, the family is comforted by the fact they will see each other again next summer.
This picture book was a Caldecott Honor book and is geared for early elementary ages. Although I did not particularly enjoy this book because the story line was overly simplistic, I was still able to find a great teaching point. I choose to read this book because it is currently being used by our first grade team to discuss families. This text can serve as a mentor text on descriptive writing. It is a good example of how an author shows rather than tells. For example, instead of saying "The relatives were happy to see us." The author writes, "Then it was hugging time. Talk about hugging! Those relatives just passed us all around their car, pulling us against their wrinkled Virginia clothes, crying sometimes. They hugged us for hours.""
"1. Summary: The relatives come from Virginia to visit over the summer and stayed for weeks and weeks. There were so many people in one house! The story describes in detail about the visit. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When the relatives finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long - they all knew they would be together next summer.
2. reading levels: Transitional reader. Genre: Fiction. Topic: Family traditions, family togetherness.
3. Specific curricular uses: Great for read aloud & independent reading
4. Social issues the book addresses: Distance shouldn't keep a family apart
5. Specific literary elements the book demonstrates: Uses 1st person narrative, stereotypical flat characters
6. Interactions & counteractions of the text & image: images are colorful. Creates images to make the words come alive"
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