Reading Is Important!

Shel Silverstein is the author and illustrator of "Where The Sidewalk Ends". Although this is not a book that has a main plot line or specific characters that grow and develop, I feel as though this is still a great book to read to your students because it's not only silly but still gives the students life lessons to remember throughout their life. I still remember many of the different poems that I read as a child and everything I took from them on how you should treat people to how to make others happy. Being able to read several of these short poems to your class a day is a great way to see the types of writing that they enjoy or don't enjoy. By reading many different short poems daily while keep the students interested everyday by introducing so many different fun stories to engage their learning. Some key words or questions that you could focus on with your students from this book would be to ask them what their dreams are and what wishes they want to come true. The first page of this book opens a wide range of topics to engage your students in. With each new poem brings a new opportunity for new questions every day which could lead to having a "Question of the Day" for when your students walk in or for the beginning of the book before you show them what the author had in mind for that same question.