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Pat Johnson

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I admit it was years and years ago that I read this, but I remember that I absolutely loved this book. When I was growing up I probably read just about every horse book ever written - not just Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry and Anna Sewell - but every obscure title I could get my hands on. Still, this is one of the ones that stayed with me. If you've got a girl that loves horse books, you have to find her a copy of this!
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GiGiGo | Feb 5, 2021 |
Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as readers on a daily basis. Each struggling child is complex and each has a unique history as a learner. In One Child at a Time, experienced literacy specialist and consultant Pat Johnson provides a framework she has used in numerous K-6 classrooms to help teachers understand and assist individual children. The four-step process outlined in the book enables teachers to focus carefully on specific strategies and behaviors; analyze them with theoretical and practical lenses; design targeted instruction in keeping with current research on reading process; and then assess and refine the teaching in conferences with the child. The framework is by no means an easy answer to a difficult problem, but through its use teachers learn how the reading process works for proficient readers and how to support struggling readers as they construct their own reading process.

The text is packed with examples of actual conferences with students, detailing how and when Pat and her colleagues intervene to instruct and assess. The examples of follow-up assessment and analysis of struggling readers over days and weeks provide an indispensable model for teachers.

Pat shows how to use this framework successfully with a range of learners, including young children, English language learners, and students in the upper elementary grades who are stalled in their literacy progress. She builds upon her decades of work as a classroom teacher, literacy specialist, and consultant in schools with high poverty and diversity, to demonstrate how this framework can be useful in any setting.
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Melanie1 | Jun 21, 2011 |
Every teacher of reading plays a vital role in helping to catch those readers for whom learning to read does not come easily. Through examples from both adults and children, the authors explain and describe the complex integrated network of strategies that go on in the minds of proficient readers—strategies that struggling readers have to learn in order to construct their own reading processes. This book is essential reading for all who work with struggling readers in any context and contains a wealth of resources, including a thorough explanation of all the sources of information readers use to solve words, examples and scenarios of teacher/student interactions, prompts to use with struggling readers, lessons on modeling, and assessment guidelines.… (mais)
 
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Melanie1 | Jun 21, 2011 |
Seventeen-year-old Julie Jefferson is determined that her horse Sunbonnet is going to make a name for herself in racing. But it seems everything is hindering her, preventing the gallant filly from winning, preventing Julie from living her dream.

Including a dangerous bout of colic, a foolish whipping by a bat-happy jockey, the shady character of Rodinbaugh (who seems intent on doing Bonnie some harm), and the desperate gamble of entering her in a claiming race. Will Julie be able to overcome these, and other, obstacles?

It's been a long time since I last read racehorse fiction, but the writing was clear and concise. (No unintelligable racing jargon here!) Even if I'd known nothing about the sport beforehand, I doubt I'd have been lost.

This is the sequel to a book called the Sweet Running Filly, but I have never read that book and don't feel that I need to. Thanks to a handy letter explaining the events of that story in the beginning of A Horse Called Bonnie, I quickly got the gist of it, and never felt that the plot didn't make sense. You don't have to track any other books down before reading this one. Bonnie is perfectly self-contained.

It is a short book, and one I enjoyed very much. The length was a bit of a detriment for the characters though. The cast was huge and a bit hard to keep track of. But everyone was likable, and a real sense of cameraderie prevailed throughout Julie's interactions with her friends - all of whom were involved in the racing business in some way. Julie, at seventeen, was the youngest character present.

Another thing... This being a children's story, most problems were resolved simply and happily. I was okay with that for the most part. At times it cut down on the realism and jolted me out of the story. But my expectations of children's books are only that they entertain, have a good plot and don't tamper with reality or preach too much. Want children facing real problems that don't just disappear? Read Shiloh instead.

Finally, this book is about horse racing. And that's all. I got more enjoyment out of this one slim volume than the first seven Thoroughbred books combined. They added in family troubles, love interests, school troubles, rivalries and a heaping spoonful of disbelief. I got the feeling that A Horse Called Bonnie had its feet on the ground more often.

So, with a great array of likable individuals, a well worded plot, a neat twist toward the end and even a bit of humor (Rand's ill-fated car trip), I'd say A Horse Called Bonnie is a good example of why I continue to read the sub-genre of children's animal stories.
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nymith | Dec 20, 2008 |

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20
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179
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3.9
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4
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24
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