Happy Thanksgiving

Robin Hill School

by Margaret McNamara, Mike Gordon (Illustrations)

Mrs. Connor's class celebrates Thanksgiving in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read!

Thanksgiving time is here, and Mrs. Connor's class is dressing up to celebrate. When the fire alarm goes off, they share their Thanksgiving cheer with the whole school!

Ready-to-read books offer children a world of possibilities at four different reading
Pre-Level Recognizing Words
-Word repetition
-Familiar words and phrases
-Simple sentences

Level Starting to Read
-Simple stories
-Increased vocabulary
-Longer sentences

Level Reading Independently
-More-complex stories
-Varied sentence structure
-Paragraphs and short chapters

Level Reading Proficiently
-Rich vocabulary
-More-challenging stories
-Longer chapters

Genres: Thanksgiving, Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

Margaret McNamara is the Christopher Award–winning author of more than two dozen books for young readers, including the Robin Hill School series. The Fairy Bell Sisters series is inspired not only by her love of the classic sisterhood novel Little Women but by her own experiences growing up with older sisters (and a baby brother). Margaret and her family live in New York City, but they spend part of their summer on an island in Maine very much like Sheepskerry Island.

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

My children love these little books. They thoroughly enjoy each and every story, as if they are all unique and individual without any cause for similarity among them. Even though sometimes, they might seem tedious and repetitive to me as a parent, I do enjoy being able to read short-stories to my children that are clean and respective.

[Emily Myhren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm surprised that this book is semi-recently published and uses the term "Indian".

[Aubrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it because there was a fire drill

[kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the most politically correct

[Andrew Stockle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a story about a first grade class who are learning all about the first thanksgiving. As the book progresses and the children are all dressed up in thanksgiving costumes the fire alarm goes off and they are all required to go outside, where the younger children stare at them. This story is very simple with great illustrations which are detailed, large, colorful, and done with watercolors with black ink on top. The text is nice and large, which would be great for young readers. This story is also appropriate for young readers due to its simplicity and school setting. I would use this book to teach the importance of classroom rules. I would also be a great book to use during thanksgiving.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a "Ready to Read level 1" book. It has one sentence per page but not very many repeatative words; so I would say more for a merging into level 2 reader. A class is getting ready to put on a Thanksgiving play and they are getting into their costumes when the fire drill rang. They go outside in costume and the Kindergarten class loves them! 'gobble gobble' they say to the 'turkey'...