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List Price: 19.95
Our Price: $17.95
Product Details
| Shipping Weight: |
0.50 |
| Author(s): |
Jane C. Lambert |
| Vendor: |
FIVE IN A ROW |
| Publisher: |
Five in a Row |
| Published: |
March, 1997 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| ISBN: |
1888659009 |
| Store Code: |
5746 |
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Average Review: 4.5 stars
Review: WONDERFUL Ideas!! : This premise is really so simple! Read a book 5 days in a row, and do various activities related to the book each day. I added FIAR into our homeschool curriculum as a literature appreciation component, it is NOT the entire focus of our day. Nevertheless, the kids really LOVE it. The first story we read was "The Story of Ping", and we choose 10 of the activities to do. I bound all of their work into a "Story About Ping" book, and they enjoy looking at their art, etc... I have found the FIAR concept to be incredibly flexible and have since then applied it to other books I love. We read "One Morning In Maine" and built a week's worth of activities around that book while we were IN Maine, and we actually went to THE Buck's Harbor and met another homeschooling family in the shop where Sal got her ice-cream!! We also used "Diary of a Spider" (I wrote a separate review on it and listed some of the activities we did, if you are interested) and THAT was a huge success. And we used "Weslandia" as well, and my children just LOVED the "FIAR" type activities we did there. Reading all of the books and the sample activites in FIAR was EXTREMELY HELPFUL, because it gave me many ideas about how to approach a book - for example, while I was very familiar with using books to talk about character development, plot structure, and language, I had never used picture books to teach art or geography before. FIAR tremendously improved my ability to mine children's literature as a teaching tool. For us, FIAR is a homeschool teaching tool. If I ever choose a book that for some reason does not gel with my kids after the second day of reading it, then I plan to choose the most interesting activities for that day and just wrap up the unit. I'm not going to plod along doing 5 days if it just isn't working for us. However, to date, this hasn't happened yet!! Even if you think you can do this approach yourself, I still recommend you either check FIAR out of the library or buy it. I even bought FIAR 2 - you can't have too many good ideas. Well okay, maybe you can, but the FIAR ideas are cream of the crop!!!
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