Teachable Texts

73. David Goes to School by David Shannon

September 7, 2009 at 11:03 pm Leave a comment

Retell: David is a rambunctious boy who wreaks havoc at school.  After coloring on the desks he stays in after school to clean them up.

Topics: school, rules, behavior, bathroom, calling out

Units of Study: Personal Narrative

Tribes: mutual respect, attentive listening, personal best

Writing Skills: using memories to generate notebook entries

Thoughts: Here is a just-for-fun read aloud for the first day of school.  It’s a great read for beginning a discussion about rules, agreements and norms.  If you have access to Guys Read you may want to share David Shannon’s story about how he created the David books.  The anthology has cool original pictures of the young version of his other book No, David!

Entry filed under: Male authors, Picture Books, Uncategorized. Tags: "just for fun", attentive listening, bathroom, behavior, calling out, mutual respect, personal best, personal narrative, rules, school, writers notebook.