Book Detail

If: A Fathers Advice to His Son

Publication Information
Author:  Kipling, Rudyard Illustrator:  Smith, Charles R. Jr.
Title:  If: A Fathers Advice to His Son Date:  2007
Publisher:  Atheneum City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  9780689877995 ISBN, hardback:  

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

General Information:
Book Type(s):    photographic essay, poetry, easy reading

HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading

Summary:
Sports themed photographs accompany Kiplings poem about the qualities that make up a mature person.

Teaching Ideas:
This book would make a good starting point for discussions about parenting and positive role models. Students could discuss if this advice applies to women and why or why not. Students could add qualities they admire to Kipling's list.

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
bullet Copy Change
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf
bullet Fluency Activities
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf
bullet Reader's Theater
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
bullet Unsent Letters
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf

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bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > life choices
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > self-esteem
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > success
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > group > values
bullet Family > father > father-child relationships
bullet Literature and Language > poetry


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