Alice's Diary 6-pack Author: Marie Gibson ISBN: 9780478124033 Copyright Date: 1999 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 4 Reading Level: R Strategy/Skill: Information skills, Making connections, Point of view, Using graphic sources Genre: Diary, Journal, and Log, Explanation Theme/Topic: Character Education, Health, Life Science Classification: Nonfiction

Book Summary

Alice is a diabetic.  In her diary, she explains how she learned to cope with her illness and why she is still just a “regular” kid.

Features of the Book

• Diary format
• Timetable and charts
• The theme of coping with illness
• The contents page, glossary, and index
• Fact boxes
• Diagrams – food pyramid, flow chart

Purpose

Alice’s Diary can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:

• relating the text to students’ own experiences
• interpreting timetables, charts, and diagrams
• discussing a text to generate further questions
• rewriting a story from a different point of view
• retrieving information and displaying it in a different way

For more information please see our Lesson Plan