Children's Book

http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view.php?op=share&book=c0b20965a2ad187d8971c4f312267408&sid=7497

I came up with the idea to write a book about pollution in the ocean because the ELA teacher that I have been working with was having her student's read about the oil spill in the gulf.  The teacher was showing student's pictures of the damage that the wildlife endured and the student's seemed very disturbed by this.  When I showed the ELA teacher the children's book that I wrote above she loved it and said that she is going to have her students read the book and give me some feedback on not only how they liked the story, but also how they like interacting and reading the book through the cast builder program.  She really liked the coaches that were embedded with the story because of all the great things that you can add to help students decode what they are reading.  I asked her if she would be willing to use this program again and she said that she would like to have her student's create their own story about pollution and how it effects wildlife.  I explained the critical thinking and creativity that this program offers and she agreed and is working on creating a rubric to use to grade their work.  She also liked how I created prompt questions on the bottom that were thought provoking questions.  This really stimulates the children's brains and gets them thinking about the bigger picture.  I think that a science or even social studies teacher could use my children's book in their classroom as well.  Science teachers could focus more on the pollution aspect where social studies teachers can focus on the social effects of pollution and how history always seems to repeat itself.