Thursday, February 12, 2015

Book Talk Thursday: Olive, My Love

I'm blogging!! It's been a crazy week of Keagan and I both home sick with the stomach bug since Saturday night, but we're finally both on the mend and I am back at school to finish out the week.


I love joining Andrea's link-up whenever I can, and I have a great Valentine's Day find if you're still looking for something cute to use tomorrow.


I had the book Olive, the Other Reindeer already, but I hadn't heard of this book until I was looking through Jivey's Better than Basal pack and saw the title. I immediately went online to check it out from our library and am so glad I did. It's a precious book! Olive gets a little confused with the difference between her name and "all of". In the Christmas, book, she thinks she can be one of the reindeer. This one is similar, but there is a little twist at the end.



I used the book to review plot. We used a graphic organizer from Erin's graphic organizer pack below (which is amazing, by the way), and the students were able to fill it in on their own as I read the book to them.

Reading Literature Graphic Organizers for Common Core 4-8

One other great thing about this book is that it's so easy that I'm taking it home tonight to read to my son. But it has a complex enough story line that the students were challenged to think about what they had to put in each section of the graphic organizer. Plus they will understand a little more of the humor as older children. I'm so glad I found this book. Valentine's Day is not one of my favorite holidays, but this story made it a little more fun! What's your favorite book for Valentine's Day?

3 comments:

  1. That is such a cute book!!!! Thanks for sharing :)
    Julie
    The Techie Teacher

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  2. We actually have a set of those books at our school. Next year I will have to use it with my older students!

    So glad you are both feeling better. That stomach bug is a mean one! Thanks for linking up!
    Andrea
    Reading Toward the Stars

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  3. I didn't know Olive had a book for Valentine's Day! Thanks for sharing!
    Casey @ CasedillaCrumbs

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