Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Farm Summer 1942 by Donald Hall illustrated by Barry Moser

Peter,  who lives in San Francisco, spends a summer on his grandparents' farm in New Hampshire while his mother helps with top-secret tasks in NYC during the war.  His father is a gunnery officer on a destroyer for the U.S. Navy.  This summer Peter learns about life on the farm and experiences some of the same things his father enjoyed as a boy.
A quieter book which requires some building of schema before and during reading the story.
A longer picture book for intermediate grades.
Strategy: inferring, schema building

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