Title: Ben's Trumpet
Author and Illustrator: Rachel Isadora Maiorano
Readability Score: Lexile: 530L, DRA: 20, Grade Level Equivalent: 3.6, Guided Reading: L
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction and Multicultural
Theme: City Life, African American, Music, Cleverness, Creativity and Imagination, Determination and Perseverance, Changes and New Experiences
Primary and Secondary Characters: Primary - Ben Secondary - Musicians in the Zig Zag Club, mama, papa, grandmother, and baby brother
Awards/ Date of Publication: 1979, A Caldecott Honor Book, An ALA Notable Book, A Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book for Illustrations, and A Reading Rainbow Review Book
Publishing Company: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 0-688-80194-3
Summary: Ben wants to learn how to play the trumpet. He plays his imaginary trumpet outside the Zig Zag Club while the band inside plays. Ben gets teased about playing his "trumpet", but someone changes that for him.
Classroom Teaching Ideas:
1. Setting goals and accomplishing them (having dreams)
2. Conflict and resolution
3. Story elements: plot, character and setting
4. Character Trait
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