Silent Letters Loud and Clear
Author: Robin Pulver
Illustrator: Lynn Rowe Reed
Publisher: Holiday House Inc.
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: Fiction/ humor
Horn Book: 2
Summary: The students of a class hate silent letters and the fact that you cannot hear them. They want them banned forever.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Mr. Wright's class still does not like silent letters. The students have had it with silent letters and the difficulty they cause in spelling lessons. They express their opinion in a perfectly typed letter to the editor, but just before they hit send, the silent letters sneak out and hide. Within the text itself, silent letters are highlighted whenever they appear. Each of the silent letters has a personality all its own, while her cartoon stick figures convey all the emotion and energy needed to carry the story.
Review by Kim Beers: The illustrations of the book really wrap about the text. In the pages, the illustrations are letters of the words on the pages. There are bold and bright colors that draws attention to each page. The letters that are used as illustrations have dialogue which makes it the pictures connect to the text in a great manner. For the letters that are silent, the author and illustrator decided to make them pop-out from the other letters letter the students know that those are the silent letters to watch out for.
This book would
be useful when teaching…
Silent Letters Loud and Clear would be great to teach students about silent letters in the English Language. There are many occasions where silent letters occur and it is hard for some students to understand.
Silent Letters Loud and Clear would be great to teach students about the differnt things authors and illustrators do to make the important aspects of the book. Just like bolding letters and making texts bigger than others from this book, students could search for other ideas from other books.
Illustrator: Lynn Rowe Reed
Publisher: Holiday House Inc.
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: Fiction/ humor
Horn Book: 2
Summary: The students of a class hate silent letters and the fact that you cannot hear them. They want them banned forever.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Mr. Wright's class still does not like silent letters. The students have had it with silent letters and the difficulty they cause in spelling lessons. They express their opinion in a perfectly typed letter to the editor, but just before they hit send, the silent letters sneak out and hide. Within the text itself, silent letters are highlighted whenever they appear. Each of the silent letters has a personality all its own, while her cartoon stick figures convey all the emotion and energy needed to carry the story.
Review by Kim Beers: The illustrations of the book really wrap about the text. In the pages, the illustrations are letters of the words on the pages. There are bold and bright colors that draws attention to each page. The letters that are used as illustrations have dialogue which makes it the pictures connect to the text in a great manner. For the letters that are silent, the author and illustrator decided to make them pop-out from the other letters letter the students know that those are the silent letters to watch out for.
This book would
be useful when teaching…
Silent Letters Loud and Clear would be great to teach students about silent letters in the English Language. There are many occasions where silent letters occur and it is hard for some students to understand.
Silent Letters Loud and Clear would be great to teach students about the differnt things authors and illustrators do to make the important aspects of the book. Just like bolding letters and making texts bigger than others from this book, students could search for other ideas from other books.