Saturday, September 29, 2012

Chapter Book # 4

 


Author and Illustrator: Louise Fitzhugh

Title: Harriet the Spy

Readability Score: Lexile: 760L, DRA: 50, Grade Level Equivalent: 6.2, Guided Reading: T

Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Comedy Humor

Theme: Honesty, Adolescence, School Life, Understanding Self and others, Manners and Conduct, Journal Writing

Primary and Secondary Characters: Harriet, Sport, Ole Golly, Mom, Dad

Awards/ Date of Publication: 1964

Publishing Company: Dell Yearling - Random House Children's Books

ISBN: 0-440-41679-5

Summary: Harriet Welsch is a diligent young writer, and thinks of herself as a spy. She spies on her neighbors and her friends, and Harriet takes brutally honest "notes" on anyone she sees. One day Harriet looses her notebook, and it turns up in the wrong hands.

Classroom Teaching Ideas:
1. Literature Response/Journal Writing
2. Story elements: plot, character and setting
3. Conflict and resolution
4. Character Traits

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