[MOSAIC] Developing character with Venn Diagrams

[jdelich at springfield.k12.il.us]

If you are wanting to use just one read aloud, and compare characters using a VENN within that book, I would suggest a book titled Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson. It's a fantasy kids can lost in with a bunch of fun characters. It will be easy to use 11 year-old Duke, Claire (Duke's cousin) who tells the story, and maybe even a member of the troll clan for the third circle? I know that students in 3rd through 6th have loved to hear the book read aloud. It's even set in "early May," on the banks of the Mississippi river, which is muddy & at flood stage!

john d

mosaic at literacyworkshop.org wrote:
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>This was something that I did in first grade.  I read Miss Rumphius and Johnny Appleseed ( Steven Kellogg).  
>It was easy to compare and contrast.
>Jeanne
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>> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:50:26 -0400
>> From: mpolselli at cox.net
>> To: Mosaic at literacyworkshop.org
>> Subject: [MOSAIC] Developing character with Venn Diagrams
>> 
>> 
>> Hello All,
>> I am looking for a good read aloud for sixth graders so they can compare and contrast 2 characters using a venn diagram (2 or 3 circles) and then develop one character using the vocabulary from the text.
>> I eventually want to do this with The Cay by Theodore Taylor, but I want to model how it is done with a read aloud first. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate any and all thoughts.
>> Thanks so much,
>> --
>> Michele Polselli NBCT '06
>> Literacy Coordinator & Grade 6 ELA/Humanities Teacher
>> Portsmouth School Dept.
>> Portsmouth, RI 02871
>> mpolselli at cox.net
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