Children's picture books

The story choose to develop Alfonsos’s vocabulary will be “The cat and the hat” by Dr Seuss for first and second grader level. This story is very popular book story that will help a child like Alfonso’s vocabulary improvement since he has difficulty with words meaning and connecting the words. One of the learning activity strategy I would design to help him improve his vocabulary skill by the end of his first grade year, so he can learn more words meaning and connection will be by doing…

While Alexandria would have wanted nothing more than to explore every inch of her newly acquired home, reality struck. If she hit the local supermarket, she could stock up on the necessities and not have to eat restaurant food every day, but she needed to get back to Beau Chênes before nightfall. With her arms overflowing with the structured paper bags containing her purchases, she rushed out of the store and barged into a customer entering through the automatic door. Wonderful. She thought.…

Many kids around the world have become less interested in books, because they have become more engaged in TV, Phones, Apps, Video Games at a young age. Fahrenheit 451 is a book with a very directed message in the importance in reading and what could happen if we don’t. Fahrenheit 451 is a book that talks about the death of books because no one reads them. The current generations have a decrease in reading because of media, like apps, console gaming and social media. This leads to many common…

act of banning books with the following statement: “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to teach of teaching subjects to their students (“About Banned & Challenged Books”). Even…

Everyday, we read books. Instruction books, books for our own pleasure, books for school work. Books printed in ink on paper. Books like the very book you’re reading were printed using a giant, efficient, mechanical printer. While we owe technology for that high-tech printer, the concept of word processing today is all based off Johann Gutenberg’s genius idea of movable type. During the Renaissance, most books were hand-copied and took years just to complete a single book. Later, block printing…

I’m going to talk about books. Banned and Challenged books. These are all books that have been banned or Challenged to be banned by schools and libraries across the country. These books have been accused of Ruining younger audiences minds with unsavory ideas and bad language. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. frequent use of a bad term for African-Americans, and the bad view of the pre war South. William Shakespeare. He’s got suicide, and homicide in his plays. How about Romeo and…

myself to follow in regards to my reading. When I read, I will make sure I slow down enough to fully absorb all the details the author has put in the book. I often become so caught up in the plot that I end up skimming the pages just to find the resolution. To fix this I can take small breaks while reading to force myself to slow down and review the book. Writing- I would like to be able to better form smoother paragraphs…

Censorship is when books, movies, news, etc. are suppressed or prohibited because they are seen as inappropriate or a public threat. Books, movies, news, etc. are censored because of religious and political objection. Many books are censored in America, but the first book to ever be censored goes by the title New English Canaan. New English Canaan was originally published in 1637 by Thomas Morton. This book had been banned because they had sympathy towards the native americans, they admired…

All of Nicholas sparks’s books have made really good movies. I think it's normal for just about every girl to like at least one of Nicholas Spark’s books that has been turned into a movie because he has so many great books and movies. Almost every girl I know has heard of or seen at least one of his books/movies. Some of his most known books/movies are, “A Walk To Remember,” “The Notebook,” “The Last Song,” “The Best Of Me,” and “Dear John.” He has so many more books out as well that will…

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 shares educated insight on the amount of censorship and political correctness in our modern society. Bradbury seems to promote anti-censorship in society throughout the novel; Bradbury explains the many reasons why books have been outlawed in the future. Though the reasoning for this prohibition on literature is never completely revealed, it is said that the amount of offense taken by minority groups helped lead to the eventual ban on all literature. Though many…