My Brother, The Skyscraper! is a children's book that explores the relationship between two brothers. A younger brother shares his admiration for his older brother while conversing with his classmate Luis. This book incorporates landmarks, measurement concepts, figurative language, organizational patterns such as compare and contrast, text features, and a conversation or dialogue between two classmates. You will receive historical facts throughout their conversation. This book will intrigue all age groups: parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and educators can share in the history of our world and make personal connections. (Personal connections: text to text, text to personal experience, and text to media).
Interactive Guide/ Materials for educators extension Lessons: explicit and implicit, characterization, imagery, text features (Helps you to anchor or root your thinking image of anchors or roots), mind reading: understanding characters, theme, context clues, character actions.
Coral Jones- author David Boyce-illustrator
I did not include additional history because I did not want to distract from the inspiration of the skyscrapers
Interactive guide/ materials for educators extension lessons: explicit and implicit, characterization, imagery, text features (Helps you to anchor or root your thinking.....use image of anchors or roots), mind reading: understanding characters, theme, context clues, character actions