Teachable Texts

112. Allie’s Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber

October 17, 2009 at 9:32 pm Leave a comment

Retell: Allie wants to be a star basketball player like her cousin Gwen.  After receiving a brand-new basketball from her father, she gives it a test run at the neighborhood playground.  She soon finds out that not everyone is willing to accept a girl on the court.

Topics: basketball, gender issues, friendship

Units of Study: Character, Social Issues, Talking and Writing About Texts, Realistic Fiction

Tribes: mutual respect, personal best, right to pass

Habits of Mind: persisting

Reading Skills: inference, interpretation, making connections

Writing Skills: planning  a story across 2-3 scenes

My Thoughts: This book is a great read aloud for so many different units.  It’s a particularly good text to read during the Social Issues unit.  It’s nice to read this book before or after reading other books that deal with gender issues such as,  William’s Doll,  or Oliver Button is a Sissy.  It’s a good mentor text for the Realistic Fiction unit because the story takes place across two scenes.

Entry filed under: Female Authors, Picture Books, Uncategorized. Tags: basketball, character, developing a seed idea, friendship, gender issues, inference, interpretation, making connections, mutual respect, persisting, personal best, realistic fiction, right to pass, social issues, talking and writing about texts.