Books

I am new to teaching 6th grade. I have always taught younger grades. I always use picture books the first week to discuss how afraid some students might be, or how lonely they might feel. I also use picture books to discuss how to have good character and to be a good friend. Picture books I have used with my 4th graders include:
"The Brand New Kid" by Katie Couric
"I Feel Silly Today" by Jaimie Lee Curtis.
"The First Day Jitters"
"A Bad Case of the Stripes"

Do you have any books that would not seem too childish for 6th graders, or am I silly for even thinking that they might like this? Thanks!
Yes, I am sort of scared that they won’t like to be read to. However, my school is a 5th and 6th grade school (so not middle school yet) and I am told that the kids are still very young acting because it is in a very upperclass area, and there are no "rough" kids. I agree that all ages like to be read to. I will take into account that too many picture books may make me seem like a younger kid teacher. I guess I won’t do it every day of the first week like I had before.

As a middle school teacher myself, if you read them picture books in the first two weeks of school, your kids are going to think you’re a pushover and don’t know what you’re doing. If you want to use them later in the year to illustrate a particular theme, point, etc. it’s fine, but they don’t need any books on feelings. I’d do some ice breaker activities and something like 2 truths and a lie–two ridiculous things about yourself that are true and one ridiculous thing that’s a lie and they have to guess which is true and which is the lie. They can play, too. My seventh graders LOVED this and it helped them to get to know me last year.

Dewey Readmore Books now the subject of a best-selling novel, was ‘interviewed’ by Morgan Halgren at the Spencer Library in 1998.

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I love romance books and books that have a point. I did not like the Bermudez Triangle because it may of had love but it didnt have a point. I love all the Sarah Dessen books, Twilight is my favorite, The Clique Series, The Private Series, The Pretty Little Liars Series, and the Ugles Series. I want to know books that have romance and mystery or just romance.

All American Girl- Meg Cabot
Gossip Girl- Cecily von Ziegesar
Stealing Heaven- Elizabeth Scott
Hope Was Here- Joan Bauer
Meet Me At The Boardwalk- Erin Haft
Impossible- Nancy Werlin
13 Little Blue Envelopes- Maureen Johnson {I know you didn’t like the Bermudez Triangle, but this book was really good!}
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You- Ally Carter
The Possibilities of Sainthood- Donna Freitas
1-800-Where-R-You series- Meg Cabot
The Face on the Milk Carton series- Caroline B Cooney
The Year of Secret Assignments- Jaclyn Moriarty
Assassin- Anna Myers
Blue Bloods- Melissa de la Cruz

great books (:

the best of season 2 and 3
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i looking for books related to american wars for example revolutionary war, civil war, ww1,ww2
my english teacher forces his students to read, analize, write essays and get tested on his boring and out dated books about america history. he want the books that we read in his class to connect to other classes. his intentions are good but he needs to choose better books and give kids more options.
Please reccomend books are exciting, will apeal to kids age 12-14 and appropriate for class.
can you also reccomend books not relating to war but in the same time period.
any good books related to physcial science are also helpful.

You should look into the author Ann Rinaldi, she writes excellent historical fiction for young readers both at the middle school and high school level and her books cover all the major events in history. Here are a couple:
The Secret of Sarah Revere (Revolutionary War)
An Acquaintance with Darkness (Civil War)
A Break with Charity- (Salem Witch Trials)

And she has many others. Excellent writer and she is used by a lot of classroom teachers although apparently not yours.

People have been reading books for millions of years… and with new techonology, now people can write them too. Ali speaks with book masters to try to get his book ideas signed out. If they signed his book, women around the world would be much, much happier.
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With advances in technology, electronic books and audio books are gaining popularity. But these do not offer the ‘feel’ of curling up with a good book. They also limit the audience to only those that have acess to a computer/internet.
Can traditional books and the world of computer text live in harmony and coincide with each other? Will books become obsolete?
What would a bookless future hold for generations to come?
Thank you in advance!

Well, the book has been around about 500 years, so I doubt it is going anywhere.

Audio would seem to be the way to go, but there is a problem. There is something you can do with a book or screen that you can’t do with sound…skim.

When we read, we can glance over words pretty quickly. Taht is why it deosn’t raelly mtater how bad yuor seplinlg is. Your brain can just quickly scan a pile of letters and make sense of them.

This allows you to just skim over a book until to find the relavent information.

That is something you can’t do with an audio file.

I think that one day there will be an ‘electric book’, like the one amazon is trying to sell, but reading isn’t going anywhere.

Joe

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I’ve just read Rich Dad Poor Dad and Rich Dads Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki. In these books Robert talks about the
importance of financial intelligence. Which books do you recommmend which can help me increase my financial inteligence
as prescribed by R. Kiyosaki. I’m not really good with numbers so a book thats aimed at such people wpuld be best. A
"financial inteligence for dummies" if you will.

Warren Buffett wrote (maybe co-wrote) a book a few years ago. I highly recommend it.

Also, I would strongly recommend a basic textbook on micro- and macro-economics.

Good luck.

dispite the fact that most people dont like ‘ Crusade ‘ by elizabeth laird …. i think its a great book its also running to win the carnegie medal.

I love Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella’s books. I am in the process of reading Emily Giffin’s books. They are all great authors!

For I teen I recommend Meg Cabot’s young adult books. She is the best author. She has adult books too, so you can grow with her.