Book Detail
Lightship |
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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 | ISBN, hardback: | ||||||||
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: | ||||||||
| Family: | Young Adult: | ||||||||
| Picture: Yes | |||||||||
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| Book Type(s): nonfiction, easy reading | |||||||||
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Summary: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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 Herringbonehttp://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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