Lightship |
Publication Information
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Author: Floca, Brian |
Illustrator: Floca, Brian |
Title: Lightship |
Date: 2007 |
Publisher: Atheneum |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 978-1-4169-2436-4 |
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Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
nonfiction, easy reading
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
Watercolor illustrations and ship diagrams enlarge the scope of this book about floating lighthouses and their crews. An author's note provides additional historical information about lightships. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Readers could keep an imaginary journal of a day on a lightship as one of the crew mentioned--helmsman, oiler, engineer, deckhand, fireman, radioman, messman or cook--or cat. Emerging readers can use the text and wonderful illustrations for vocabulary development. The mention in the Author's Note of a collision of the Olympic, sistership of the Titanic, with a lightship in 1934 is worthy of research and writing as is Light Vessel 87 at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City. Compare and contrast lightships to lighthouses. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Herringbone
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/herringbone.pdf
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Types of Journals
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/types_of_journals.pdf
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Semantic Mapping
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/semantic_mapping.pdf
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Word Sorts
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/word_sorts.pdf
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Venn Diagrams
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
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