Gail Tuchman

This book was a decent book. One thing I didn’t like about it was that the book didn’t really describe or teach the reader anything about cars or racing. The book used several words about cars and racing but they weren’t defined or shown with pictures. I think everything in an informational book should be clearly defined and shown to the reader. What I did like was the pictures. Like I said in one of my earlier logs, I really like when informational books have real life pictures show more because it helps the reader have a better understanding. Even though this book didn’t have labels for the pictures, they were still real life pictures so it might help the reader understand a little better. The main idea of this book is to teach the reader about racecar driving. show less

This is Scholastic Phonics Reader Series number 17. So where is Nat? Well, Nat's not in. Nat's not in a lot of places, but he is on the mat. The sight words for this book are where, mat, and Nat (mat and Nat should be "at" word family words, but we'll overlook that...) We're also looking at beginning and ending /n/ sounds.

Great nonfiction reader for students. Includes table of contents, page numbers, titles, index, and glossary. It also includes a link to a website with more activities. This book is full of information on rocks and minerals, all different types, what they look like, where they are found, what they are used for, etc.

This is number 14 in one of the Scholastics Phonics Series. This story focuses on the sounds /v/ and /q/ and the word family "ut". Duck finds a nut, and can't crack it. Finally it gets stuck on his bill, but the vet gets it off and cracks it. It's a coconut and they drink the milk inside.