The Seeing Stick Chapter Summary

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The book is important to the children between the age of 3-7 since it tells a story of a young child and how it feels to migrant. In addition to this, it can be considered as a timely picture book owing to the current challenge these people go through. This book creates a culture of understanding and helping the disadvantaged in the society. 1. Primary grade: Yolen, J., & Preuss, R. (1977). The seeing stick. New York: Crowell. The Seeing Stick by Jane Yolen demonstrates high quality for the primary grades since it tells a story of the daughter of the emperor of China who was born blind. This book encourages the children not to discriminate against the disables. This book is important since this is the time when children sees the physically …show more content…

(2014). Tomboy: A graphic memoir. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The best book for this class of people is the Tomboy by Liz Prince tells a story of lesbianism and how it develops. The modern generation is experienced with this problem of gays and lesbianism and thus it is important for children aged 8-11 to learn about how such people develop the behavior. This book will raise awareness on such behavior in the society and they are able to avoid them. 1. Novel: Okorafor, N. (2017). Akata Witch (Vol. 1). Penguin. The novel Akata Witch by Nnnedi Okorafor has the main character being Sunny an American born actor, and she is black and albino. The novel serves a motivation for the children who may want to enter into the acting industry. The novel challenges by showing them a girl who went beyond all odds of being a black and furthermore being physically challenged to become an actor. 1. Nonfiction book: Engle, M. (2015). Drum dream girl: How one girl's courage changed music? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ` C. i). In teaching, the picture book, the teacher should use the vocabulary building as this helps the children point out unfamiliar words and get meaning used in the book. This will also help them in seeking clarification from their teacher on some of the …show more content…

While the students are required to get awareness about the behavior that may lead to gayism or lesbianism. After reading the book, they will be required to give their views and responses about the book. For the novel Akata Witch, the best teaching strategy is to form group discussion. The students will learn better by discussing the plot of the novel, themes, and the character traits in the story. The non-fiction will be taught effectively through peer discussion. Being a non-fiction, students will be required to think critically about the book and this will be effective if only students engage in meaningful discussion. II). The method of vocabulary building will help the students understand the kind of objects that are found in the community. As such, they will be able to relate to these objects and their corresponding names in the society/ By making summaries in The Seeing Stick, students will be able to identify some of the physical impairments that people in their society face. As a result, they will be able to understand how to handle them and perceive

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