Grades 1-3Informational, Non-Fiction
Have you ever wanted to grow your own plant? How do plants grow? Where do the beans we plant come from? If so, One Bean by Anne Rockwell is the book for you! One Bean is an informational, non-fiction book about how a plant grows.
One Bean is kid-friendly because the children can relate to the characters in the book. The characters are two young children. These two children help the plant grow throughout the story, while explaining the process in a fun and exciting way. The accuracy of One Bean is respectable. The facts about growing a plant are certainly current and complete. The sequence of events is kid-friendly and the intended audience of this book would be younger elementary school children.
The organization of this book is extremely easy to follow. The narrator of the story is a young boy. When the plant begins to blossom, he relates it to the well-known story Jack and the Beanstalk. This helps students relate their prior knowledge to the book.
I love the illustrations in this story. They are engaging and involve the two main characters, a young boy and girl. The illustrations, as well as the style of the book, allow the reader to become eager to read to find out what happens next. With that being said, the author does use some vocabulary that may confuse readers although, if the reader follows along with the story as well as the pictures, they should be able to get a sense of what the unfamiliar vocabulary words mean.
Overall, this non-fiction informational book is one that is engaging and eye-capturing for young readers. After reading this book, children may want to try to plant their own bean and see what flower it may turn into. This would show the importance that informational books offer as well as the importance of the correct sequence of order to write the information. This book would be beneficial and helpful in a classroom if it were used in a science lesson on the growth of plants, starting with a single bean. In conclusion, I think young readers would enjoy reading and learning from this informational book! It can spark interest and conversation in the classroom, something all teachers strive to achieve.
2 comments:
Lots of good information here, though would have liked to know what words were confusing.
This sounds like a good book to use in the classroom about plants. I like how even if children don't know the words, the illustrations can still help them out. This was a good blog post and I like the opening talk.
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