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Whales on Stilts
Whales on Stilts | M. T. Anderson, Kurt Cyrus
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Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
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Kcallihan
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#lae3414sp19 Whales on Stilts! M. T. Anderson‘s Thrilling Tales by M. T. Anderson is a science fiction children‘s book. This book is a fun-loving book about a child that discovers her dad‘s boss is building stilts for whales so they can take over the land. This book is quite comical while still involving strong underlying messages to believe in yourself and have strong friendships.

Kcallihan The UDL I would use for this book would be to offer alternatives for visual information. Since there aren‘t many pictures provided in this book, it could be a good idea to provide pictures of what is happening or ask the students if they‘d like to do occasional drawings to check their comprehension. 6y
Kcallihan The ESOL strategy I would use would be 17, provide contextual support through audio visuals, models, demonstrations, realia, body language, and facial expressions. As stated previously, since the book doesn‘t have any pictures, it‘s imperative to keep the kids comprehending what is happening through images, facial expressions, etc. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whales-on-Stilts-Novel-Study-Reading... 6y
DrSpalding Very nice detail included regarding the principles and strategies that align to this book. 6y
dayuso1 This looks incredibly entertaining for young students. I like your idea to include more visuals, since it lacks illustrations. An alternative idea might be to allow your students to make their own illustrations based on what they imagine from the text! 6y
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JocelynNolton
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Whales on Stilts is a SF, ALA Notable Children‘s Book written by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Kurt Cyrus. It could be used as IR or PR. This book follows a little
girl named Lily. She finds out that her dad works for an evil genius
who plans on giving whales stilts so that they can take over the land.
Lily and her two friends, Jasper and Katie must find a way to put a
stop to his plan. This UDL principle 7.1- Optimize individual choice
and

JocelynNolton autonomy could be used by letting the student choose to read this
type of book. EL 44- Focus on thinking skills; predict, categorize,
classify, observe and report (oral-written-pictorial), sequence,
summarize could be achieved with this book. This is a link to a lesson
plan that has students read science fiction texts and then compare the
information in the text to nonfiction texts and resources to support
or refute the information in the story.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/finding-science-b...
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