Kate DiCamillo

Courtney Roy September 29, 2014 Grade Level: Fourth Subject: Language Arts Topic: Micro-Teach-Character Identification Purpose: To help students better understand characters actions and motivates through character’s traits, within a story. Common Core Standard(s): English/Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character 's thoughts, words, or actions). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY

emotional, physical, and mental, happen to people world wide. Problems are not just limited to children, teenagers, young adults, adults, or elderly people, they come and go from everyone 's life. One story that won a Newbery Award in 2004 written by Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux:Being the story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread helps readers to understand some problems faced in life. This story contains many important and different themes that readers pick up on. Within the

For my March book report, I read the graphic novel type book The Magician's Elephant, by Kate Dicamillo. This is a 201 page book. According to a review on Amazon, Kate Dicamillo “weaved her words through the story.” I suggest the reading level is for 3-5th graders, it was a bit easier than the other books I normally read. The main character was a small boy named Peter Augustus. He is skinny, blonde haired boy. His father and mother died, and he was taken to train to be a soldier, like his father

The use of anthropomorphism makes the characters of any book more believable for children. Using anthropomorphism in children’s literature brings in an element of discovery for the child. The child is able to make connections in early childhood to animals with human traits as believable characteristics. Anthropomorphism could be used as building blocks for older children. Literature based upon more vivid and believable animal characters could cause the child to easily identify with the character

Introduction This paper focuses on two books, the picture book and realistic novel. I am hopeful while doing a critical analysis of these two books that it would help me to create an effective mini library in my future classroom. I would like to use it as a helpful tool to teach children how to compare the differences and similarities of the two genres and many more. I have chosen Corduroy as my picture book and Because of Winn-Dixie as my realistic novel to write on this written critique because

Have you ever seen a Tiger? Maybe behind a cage at the zoo? Have you wondered how it feels to be behind a cage and not be free? In The Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo, Rob is a 12-year-old boy whose mother recently passed away. Rob was very connected to his mother, so when she died, he didn't take it easy. Rob was hurt and sad. Rob then had to move to Florida. Rob's life was very hectic at the moment, but after his mother's funeral, he made a promise to himself that he would never cry again and to

The first time I ever fell in love with reading was when I was 10 years old. I feel like that maybe a little late in the game, but my parents never really read to my sister and me while we were growing up. I never truly had that, "wow" moment with a book just yet. My father was in the Army and was deployed a lot and my mom worked or tried to stay busy so she would not miss him. Reading wasn't on the top of their to do list and at the time, it wasn’t on the top of mine. We were busy exploring new

examples that you have selected are great when it comes to explaining the usage of the word “light” in the book. Your explanation and examples helped me to have a better understanding of why DiCamillo uses the word “light” several different times throughout the book. I also noticed that while reading the book DiCamillo brought up darkness because when there where scenes in the dungeon of the castle, it was often described as being very dark

Love. Everyone needs something to believe in, and that love is key to inspire greatness. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, by Kate DiCamillo, is about a girl who has great belief in a squirrel. Flora is a girl, who believes this squirrel, Ulysses, has great potential to be a superhero. Flora’s mother, has her heart set on getting rid of Ulysses. But with the help of Tootie, William Spiver, and Mary Ann, (their stupid lamp) Flora ventures to find her beloved squirrel. This squirrel is

Kiss Me Kate Kiss Me Kate. My mother still talks about it to this day, the first high school play she was ever in. She acts like her performance was as good if not better than the those on Broadway. And to think I’ve never seen the show that is my mother’s “claim to fame.” (Well other than her short renditions she gave in the kitchen). But now it was my turn to watch the real show from the audience of the Rockwell, instead of our kitchen table. The format of this show, a play within a play, allowed