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A World To Explore (2010)

by Daniel Kirk(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0810989689 (ISBN13: 9780810989689)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

series

Library Mouse

review 1: Book Title: Library Mouse: A World to Explore by Daniel KirkShort description of book: This story is the continuation of Sam the mouse and his adventures in the school library (LOVE this little character). Sam discovers a friend in another mouse in the library. Her name is Sarah and she is quite adventurous (moreso than Sam). Sarah pushes Sam out of his comfort zone and stretches him to try new things. Sprinkled in this book are great nuggets like: writing about adventures, reading and researching different topics, friendship, and overcoming fears. At the end, Sarah challenges Sam to explore life outside the library (there is a great inference here about maybe another book to follow).Teach: I want to list a couple of other uses before I offer my plan. I could see usi... moreng this for a read aloud to help students learn to research, and explore topics about friendship. For this lesson, I would like to focus on themes in narrative stories. I would present an anchor chart with themes and explain to students that when authors write that their stories often contain themes (or the message of the story). Tell students to listen in as you read Library Mouse: A world to explore. Find a stopping point after several pages (after meeting Sarah) and model thinking aloud about how adventurous Sarah is. Tell students to listen to the rest of the story and listen in for what they think the message might be in this story. I would have a few different options on the board written down for my first graders (to help introduce this for the first time). After reading, show the students the choices for the theme: a. friends are great to have b. the library can be fun or c. sometimes friends can help you get over your fears. Talk about each option and have students turn and talk with a partner about which one of these is the message. (This could also be used during your reader’s workshop minilesson time). Tell students that just like Daniel Kirk uses the theme of overcoming your fears, that they too, can write and include a message in their story. I would create a class story together (a time when we were all afraid- pick some common moment that you all shared). You could also pick other themes like: courage, honesty (pick something you have experienced together as a class in order to model and create this class story). During the week, have students create a list of themes and push them to think about creating a story using one of these with a character (or with themselves).Expected Outcomes: Students will be exposed to themes (during reader’s and writer’s workshop). Students will create a list of possible themes from the stories we read in writer’s workshop and reader’s workshop). By the end of this unit, students should write a short story with a main character overcoming adversity (overcoming fears, honesty, etc.). The teacher could create a class book with the final published piece to share at home with their parents. (place on construction paper, laminate it and create a cover and bind it). CCSS W1. 3 and 1.5: Students will write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, an provides some sense of closure. W1.5: With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
review 2: One evening in the library, Sam meets another mouse named Sarah, the adventurer. Sarah is all about roaming high up in the shelves, leading her to far off places she wants to visit. Sam on the other hand never adventures into the shelves especially, on top of them because he is a afraid. He would rather read about things and write about them instead. Sam does however show Sarah that by reading books you can still have fun adventures. So in return Sarah shows Sam that actually going on adventures and taking some risk is really worth doing. This book is an adorable little story for children to get excited about libraries and reading books. This will be great for children first entering school and those that have never been to a library. I would thus use it to show children how to expand their minds for learning new things by sharing a book every other day to the class, then later on taking them to the library to explore the shelves for themselves less

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