Where the Sidewalks Ends Ch Book Mod 8

Where the Sidewalk Ends

By:  Shel Silverstein

Book Blog Module:  8

Module Descriptor and Page #:  Poetry Pg 280

A.    Author	Shel Silverstein
B.     Title	Where the Sidewalk Ends
C.     Illustrator	Shel Silverstein
D.    Readability Score	3.9
E.     Genre	Poetry
F.      Subgenre	Limericks, Verse
G.    Theme	Disobedience and parental guidance
H.    Primary and Secondary Characters	Book of Poems
I.       Awards/Date of Publication	2004 Awards ALA Notable Children’s Book New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year New York Times Notable George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Recognition of Merit Award Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin) Golden Archer Award (Wisconsin) Amazon.com Customers’ Favorite Amazon.com Customers’ Favorite
J.       Publishing Company	HarperCollins Publishers
K.    ISBN Number	0-439-81232-1
L.     Summary	This book is a 300 page book filled with poems.  The poems are sad, happy and imaginative.  The beautiful drawings help to visualize events in the poems.
M.   Picture of Book Cover
N.    Usage with students	Use this poem as a model to explore one word summaries. Read three different poems aloud to a third grade class (on different days). First, read “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too” as an attention getter into the unit of poetry. This is a playful and humorous poem that most students enjoy, and could show the students that poetry can be fun and not intimidating with specific rules and formats. Second, read “Smart” which is about a boy who trades one dollar for two quarters because two is more than one, and so one. This poem is also humorous and relatable to students and could also tie into a math unit. Finally, read“Sick” to the students which is about a child how lists all the aliments of herself to avoid school yet when she finds out it’s Saturday she feels better. This is also a humorous relatable poem for students.