The Straight Line Wonder

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Summary: Exciting and orignal book for children!
Review: The illustrations in this book are terrific! The story revolves around three lines that are friends and the language is amazing. Mem Fox is a wonderfully creative author.

A fellow teacher shared this book with me. She fell in love with it at the Florida Reading Association conference last month and just had to buy it. We are studying intersecting lines, parallel lines and perpindicular lines in my fifth grade classroom. I thought this would be a fun book to read to the class so that we could discuss different types of lines.

After I read the story to my class we listed all of the verbs in the story and believe me, they are original! I don't want to spoil it for you by directly quoting from the book. We also talked about being different, of being true to yourself and not being afraid to think outside of the box. These were univesal themes the books touched on as well.

I recommend this book, you can certainly use it to teach "across the curriculum."