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Cool Moonlight, A

Publication Information
Author:  Johnson, Angela Illustrator:  
Title:  Cool Moonlight, A Date:  2003
Publisher:  Dial City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-8037-2846-8 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:  

General Information:
Book Type(s):    fiction

HSE Descriptor(s):   

Summary:
Lila, who has an allergy to sunlight, lives with her disability helped by her family and friends, real and imaginary. The author uses lyrical language deftly to tell the story with great sensitivity and lightness.

Teaching Ideas:
The story makes a good introduction the topic of disabilities and how people and families cope with them. Students can discuss and write about people they know who have coped with similar situations. Learners may want to explore the role of imaginary friends. Because Angela Johnson uses poetic language throughout the story, students may want to consider how she describes the night, how she presents Alyssa and Elizabeth, and how she creates suspense about the contents of the "sun bag" before revealing the ojects.

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Agree? Disagree? Why?
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf
bullet Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
bullet Reader's Theater
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
bullet (Write and Share) 2
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/write_share2.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > imagination
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > kindness
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > love
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > physical issues > physical disability
bullet Family > children > childhood
bullet Literature and Language > figurative language
bullet Family > family life
bullet Science > health


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