10/19/10

Trainstop

Trainstop
Picture Book (No words)
Author: - Barbara Lehman
Title: - Trainstop
Illustrator: - Barbara Lehman
Publisher: - Houghton Mifflin Company Boston
Year: - 2008



Format: - Hardcover
Genre: - Picture book no words
Reading Level: - Emergent reader
Interest Level: - Preschool


Topics: - Traveling. Friends.




Summary: - There was a little girl on a train. She was checking out everything outside the windows. She saw many little people running and got off of the train. She went and helping one of them out of a tree. She was a giant compared to them. The little buy thanked her. She went and got back on the train. She got off the train with her mom and dad. They went home, and she played with her little friends.






Extension Activities: - Have the children draw their favorite way to travel.
Have them show and tell their favorite toy.
Give them an assignment to help someone out every day of the week and have them share at the end of the week.