Don't Forget!: a Responsibility Story: A Responsibility Story (Main Street School Set 2)

Suen, Anastasia

ISBN 10: 1602702691 ISBN 13: 9781602702691

Publisher: Looking Glass Library, 2008

Synopsis

The students in Miss K’s class experience situations that occur in schools everywhere. A group of children learns the importance of being responsible in Don't Forget! Sam's story teaches about responsibility, classroom pets, and friendship with brilliant illustrations and humorous text. What Do You Think? quetions, Miss K's Classroom rules, and a glossary aid teachers in classroom discussions about the character trait of responsibility featured in this stunning picture book. Special thanks to content consultant Vicki F. Panaccione Ph.D. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades preK-4.

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From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2—In Don't Forget!, Sam has to care for the class rabbit, and, like many young students, he needs to work on attitude, planning, and follow-through. Complaining the whole time, he first tries to put off the feeding, and then performs the job sloppily. His persistent teacher and a friend teach him to embrace the responsibility. In Vote, a somewhat weaker story, Suen answers questions about the electoral process and good choices through a series of conversations between the title character, who is running for student council, and his friend. The two talk a lot about what to put on campaign posters and how to deal with an opponent, but not much about what it means to serve. The characters and situations in both books unfold realistically, and Ebbeler's illustrations, showing multicultural students in a familiar school environment, fill in the details. The result is dialogue-driven character-education stories that meet readers at their own level. Comprehension and inference questions and a set of relevant school rules provide extensions for classroom use. The dialogic narrative invites use as reader's theater.—Lisa Egly Lehmuller, St. Patrick's Catholic School, Charlotte, NC
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Review

"Colorful illustrations depict a multicultural classroom....they do a decent job of imparting lessons on character development."

About this edition

• Publisher: Looking Glass Library
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1602702691
• ISBN 13: 9781602702691
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Ebbeler Jeff