This Is How We Do It
Author and Illustrator: Matt LaMothe
Publisher: Chronicle Books in 2017
Pages: 52
Genre: Informational/Nonfiction
Summary
This Is How We Do It is an incredible book to show students in the United States how other children's lives look around the world. In the beginning of the book, the reader meets seven children who are each from a different country. Each child goes into grand detail about what their day to day life looks like. They talk about everything from going to school to what their plate at dinner looks like and how it differs from ours!
Illustrations
Matt LaMothe is the author as well as the illustrator. He has a degree in animation and loves illustrating. His illustrations are very lively and colorful to make the reader feel invited into the different lifestyles they get to learn about throughout the book.
Content Area
This book could really be used for any elementary grade to introduce different cultures. Depending on the grade level it is being used for, it could used to focus on dialogue in Language Arts. This book is a great way to show how people all different in their own ways and not everyone has the same lifestyles. This book could also be used to teach geography and to point out the different countries that the book discusses on a map. There are several different activities that could be incorporated in when reading this awesome book.
This sounds like a really great book! It would be really great to teach about different perspectives, comparing and contrasting, different cultures, and so much more! This would be a great book to read for a thematic unit on countries or cultures! Thank you for sharing! (:
ReplyDeleteThis is a great way for children to understand the similarities and differences they might have with each other! It could also help them have respect for each other and understand that they are more alike than they might think.
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