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Cargando... If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi?por Barbara Esham
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is very informative. It is filled with details about individuals with dyslexia. However, I wish the book talked about dyslexia itself more than the people with the learning difficulty. The book pushes readers to think about other learning challenges children may have and how they can be controlled. The message in this book is that students with learning difficulties are just as intelligent as students without learning difficulties. The illustrations were well drawn and include light watercolors. the language flowed well and was easy to read. ( ) I did not like this book for a number of reasons, mainly because of the writing and illustrations. The book told an interesting and heartwarming story about a girl who discovers her dad has dyslexia and struggled through school like many others, but is very intelligent and still works a successful job. While the characters are fairly developed in the story, the organization of thoughts and words on a page is very hard to follow. The story is told in first person by an eight year old, which explains the rapid thoughts and questions stated on every page, however unnecessary content made comprehension a challenge. For example, “I wonder if my teacher, Mrs. Peterson, know about dyslexia and all of these great people...Maybe their parents were patient and supported them…Maybe they had a teacher who could see how smart they were anyway”. Secondly, I think the illustrations and number of words on each page made the text very overwhelming for the reader and often times the illustrations did not closely relate to the information presented. The pictures were very detailed and colorful usually crowded with many people and things that didn’t necessarily enhance the story. I found at times the illustrations distracting which took away from the story. The big message for this book however, is that even though someone may struggle in one area or task, it does not mean that this person is not smart or they should give up on something they love because it takes extra work to be good at it. I liked this story a lot because I think it covered a topic that is not usually introduced to young readers: dyslexia. The book opens up with a description of a girls’ dad and his job as a lawyer, and how he’s getting ready for a big case. I liked how the first page ended with a question to the reader “have you ever worked on anything for a year?” The girl, Katie, goes on to talk about some of the “observations” that she’s working on, like how she saw a kid at lunch squeeze pudding until the lid popped and it went all over him, or that her 3 year old sister wanted everyone to call her Eduardo (after watching a cooking show about a man named Eduardo with her grandmother).I also liked how there were funny illustrations in the background of the story as Katie tells it, of her sister doing things like attempting to cook a pot of something alone and making a mess. One day Katie asks her dad, “the smartest person she knows” how to spell Mississippi, while doing her homework. Her Dad tells her he isn’t sure how to spell Mississippi, and that he was never a good speller, and always got made fun of. He says to Katie: “its very difficult when you’re the kid in the class who works extra hard and still has trouble” which makes Katie think about a boy in her class who isn’t good at spelling and she starts to feel sorry for him. Her father goes on to explain dyslexia, and tells Katie that he has it. Katie is so confused at how her dad-the smartest person she knows, yet he does not know how to spell Mississippi and reminds her of a boy in her class who has trouble as well. Katie does some research in the library where she gets a book out of the library and sees all of the famous people and inventers and accomplished well-known people who have dyslexia. She says: “I have a feeling that most of these great people had someone to help them through the tough times, when they might have been feeling frustrated or sad.” The meaning behind this book is that being “smart” does not necessarily mean you have to be a good reader or speller. I think it also teaches children that they should not judge one another and should learn to be more accepting of one another, and empathize with their peers. This is a book about a little girl who loves to observe things. One night she asked her dad for help spelling the word Mississippi. He couldn't spell it and Katie was surprised. She thought her dad was smart. He then proceeded to tell her about how he struggles with dyslexia, but that doesn't mean he wasn't smart. Katie goes to the library and finds a book about dyslexia. She reads about many famous people who struggled with dyslexia. She then decides to encourage her classmate who seems to have the same problems. I absolutely loved this book. This was a book about a girl who asked her father for help with her spelling homework. She came to realize that her father is dyslexic and has a hard time reading and spelling. She could not believe it because her father was the “smartest person she knows.” I really enjoyed this book because it was informative yet still interesting to read. The book had lots of facts and information about dyslexia but it was told from the perspective of a third grader. For example, “ I wonder if my teacher, Mrs. Peterson, knows about dyslexia and all these great people…I have a feeling that most of these great people had someone to help them through the tough times, when they might have been feeling frustrated or sad.” When doing the research about dyslexia Katie was able to relate it what she was reading to her father and that gave her a better understanding of it. This book really shows all of the great things that people who have dyslexia have accomplished. It even said in the book, “Dyslexia does not mean a person isn’t smart. In fact, some of the greatest scientist, doctors, and inventors struggled with symptoms of dyslexia.” The main message of this book is to inform students about dyslexia and to show that even if a person is having trouble reading does not mean they are not smart. This book would be great to give to a young student who has dyslexia because it can show them all of the great people and things accomplished by people who have the same disability. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Introduces the mainstream student and educator to the world of the child who struggles academically. The main character discovers her father is dyslexic, as is one of her classmates-- and she tries to make sense of it. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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