Escaping The Giant Wave by Peg Kehret is the reading group selection
all my fifth graders were begging to read. Unfortunately I only had so many copies thus only a lucky few received a coveted spot in that group. Truthfully, I thought the book was lame. Sure it has some exciting parts and even includes some bits of character introspection, sibling rivalry, and interactions with a bully, but there is nothing spectacular about the language to make it worthy of guided reading time. Next year, I much prefer having all students read
A Long Walk to Water, which stylistically and thematically offers much more for us to sink our teeth into!
There’s nothing wrong with encouraging students to read what they love and choose their own reading material though. So this disaster tale of how a family’s stay at the Totem Pole Inn on the Oregon coast goes horribly wrong isn’t all bad.
No comments:
Post a Comment