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Reading: The Means Reading: The Means of Extending & of Extending & Building Funds of Building Funds of Knowledge Knowledge Elfrieda H. Hiebert Elfrieda H. Hiebert University of California, University of California, Berkeley
Weather Conditions: rain, snow, hail, sunny & clear, sunny & cloudy Seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall/ autumn climate zones: continental, polar, tropical, mountain, desert, mild
Top Ten Books Over Three Years
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Supermans First Flight Britney Spears Hangin With Lil Romeo Arthurs Underwear Pokemon Pop Quiz Pop People: Lil Romeo NBA Action From A To Z Mojo Jojos Rising Pop People: Destinys Child Chomp! I Choose You Hangin With Hilary Duff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Paste Makes Waste How To Draw Spiderman Itchy Itchy Chicken Pox Attack of the Prehistoric Pokemon What Did I Do To Deserve a Sister Like You? The Very Hungry Caterpillar Scooby-Doo and the Sunken Ship Meet the Stars of Professional Wrestling Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine Rock Solid The All New Captain Underpants Extra- Crunchy Book O Fun #2 The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs Scooby-Doo and the Snow Monster The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby Arthur Goes To Camp The Island of Giant Pokemon The Captain Underpants Extra- Chunky Book O Fun
McGill-Franzen, A., & Botzakis, S. (in press). Series books, graphic novels, comics, and magazines: Unauthorized texts, authorized literacy practices. In E.H. Hiebert (Ed.), Reading more, reading better: Are American students reading enough of the right stuff? NY: Guilford.
(from Hayes & Ahrens,1988) 28.4 17.3 Adult Speech Expert eyewitness testimony College graduates to friends 22.7 20.2 30.8 2.0 Television Texts Popular adult shows Popular children’s shows Cartoons
Rare Words per 1,000 128.0 68.3 65.7 52.7 53.5 30.9 16.3 Printed Text Abstracts Newspapers Popular Magazines Adult books Comic Books Children’s Books Preschool Books
Rare Words per 1,000
Planting and Gardening When How tools Where What crops that can be grown year round crops that are grown during certain seasons flowers not for food for food vegetables fruits seeds seedlings trees containers in the ground heritage verus non- heritage plants
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use of chemical pest control use of chemical growth enhancements natural pest control use of natual products to help plants grow crops grown in greenhouses full sun partial sun/ shade full shade
Volcanoes: Nature’s Incredible Fireworks: This is an in depth look at volcanoes. The author describes how volcanoes form and how explosive and destructive they can be. There is also mention
A Symphony of Whales: The ice traps thousands of Beluga whales and they cannot swim back out to sea. Glashka rallies the village to chip away at the ice so that the whale can surface and
follow the ship. Glashka tells the ship’s captain to play music to help lure the whales back out to sea. Night Letters: Lilly is fascinated with the natural world—ant trails, a hawkmoth, cracks in a rock, flashing fireflies, and the bark
night letters) about these phenomena. Pushing Up the Sky: This Native American tale explains how the sky got so high. The Snohomish worked together to push the sky
result of the poles that were used to push the sky up. The Gardener: The story is a collection of letters that chronicles Lydia Grace Finch’s move from her family’s farm to the city to live with her Uncle Jim. Lydia Grace plants a garden on the rooftop
Jim’s face. WHAT NEW INFORMATION MIGHT STUDENTS GAIN? SELECTION