On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier

I would use this book for a guided reading selection, and I would also consider it for an independent reading book for students who are just transitioning into reading such books. Topics: new life, natural world, embracing birth, acceptanceĬurriculum Uses: I would use this book as a read aloud for younger students because it will help them feel loved, and maybe it will help them feel like the classroom environment that I am trying to create is much like the ambiance that this book creates. There are also specialized content words that are related to nature that readers may have trouble reading because they have never been introduced to such words. There are some regular and some harder phonetic regularities, and the words are mostly one or two syllables. Some of the sentences are complex, but most of the sentences just have a wide range of high frequency words. Reading Level: The book is best for late-early readers because of the size of font, the increased amount of space between the letters and the amount of text on each page.

How little were your fingers? How tiny were your toes?' On another page, the jubilant child dances across a beach: 'On the day you were born waves washed the beaches clean for your footprints. Was it day, or was it night?' is printed with another space for a picture and a line to write the date and time of birth against the backdrop of more starry sky with that old blue and green globe plopped in the middle and a figure of a child frolicking across the ocean. Turn the page: 'You were born on the round planet Earth. A star-spangled blue sky, crossed by a swath of sunshine yellow with gold birds, introduces the reader to 'the very first day you arrived.' Baby's picture and name go right in the middle of all the cheery yellow. Summary: Inspired by Debra Frasier's enormously popular On the Day You Were Born, this charming photo journal invites families to celebrate the arrival of their loved one into the natural world.

On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier