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Biography, ages, 9+
Independent reading level grades third through sixth

This story tells about the amazing story of Hellen Keller and how she overcame her disabilities and hardships and did not let them define her, This is a wonderful story that shows that disabilities do not define a person.

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Grades 3 to 7
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Contents: On the Road, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.
Tim visits 5 cities and sends postcards to his mom and dad telling them about the events and places he visited.

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A classic folk tale that pairs with 'Corn: An American Indian Gift' (See teacher's guide: 3 large cards)

A raccoon explains why he does not like Mondays

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How a family makes apple pie from harvesting to baking the pies

Who Was Helen Keller? is a book about Helen Keller detailing that even as a baby, she was as inquisitive as ever, always eager to learn. Struck by illness at two years old, she lost her hearing and sight. This book describes her journey as she learned how to learn, read, write, and speak with the help of Annie Sullivan and the encouragement of many others. I would use this book to teach students acceptance, perseverance, history, language arts since she had to learn another language, and diversity. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Helen Keller's life beyond just the fact she was deaf and blind.

This book is a biography of Helen Keller, and it goes into depth about all of her accomplishments while living with disabilities. Helen was both deaf and blind, and experienced many struggles throughout her childhood; however, with the help of a fantastic teacher, Helen was able to learn to read, speak using sign language and understand the world around her. I rated this chapter book four stars out of five because it was an inspiring and eye-opening read. I can see myself using this book in my fifth-grade classroom to go through the writing process and have students write their biographies. Not only did the book speak about Helen Keller's life, but it also contained excerpts on the notable people and concepts she encountered throughout her life. Lastly, I enjoyed all of the information I learned about Helen Keller from this read, considering I knew of her, but I didn't fully understand much about her and her life.

This is a biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.

Who was Helen Keller" is an biography about the life of Hellen Keller and her accomplishments despite losing her sight and hearing. She lived in a world of perpetual darkness and silence, for a long time. With the help of her dedicated teacher, Helen exceeded all the expectations that others had of her.

Reading this book has an obvious historical component but this book can also have a significant impact on opening a conversation about those who have disabilities and the services they need.

Hearing Hellen Keller's name rings a bell to all people, but what do they really know of her life? Only that she was blind and deaf. This children's chapter book gives more insight into her falling ill and becoming deaf and blind. It talks of how she and her family became frustrated. This book focused on the bond and contribution that Anne Sullivan made for Helen. Without Anne's courageousness and bravery to help Helen she may not have gotten as far as she did. She went from barely communicating simple words to spelling words on peoples hands. She struggled to attend school and this book captured her lonely and excluded feelings. This book shows Helen as a stubborn yet inspiringly determined girl. She applied to college and worked endlessly to achieve her best effort works, she had many speeches and went on to publish articles in magazines that later became a book. She then also created books and plays about her and Anne's life. She is a symbol of how anything is possible if you just believe and work toward your goals. I would teach my kids in the future about her and possibly with this book. The style of this book of including details to better inform like sign language, Alexander Graham Bell, Anna Sullivan, Perkins school, Laura Bridgman, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Louis Braille, and the Braille system and even Franklin D. Roosevelt taught background information on their contribution to Helen's life.

This children's chapter book belongs to the Who Was series. The Who Was series is a great series to transition young readers from easy picture books to chapter books in the genre of biographies. The book has a reading level of 3.4. In this book, readers are not bombarded with facts but follow the story of the life of Helen Keller.
The thing I enjoyed the most about the book was how the author includes the other people who helped Helen Keller along her journey. Many times I find that biographies tend to focus on the person accomplishments without discussing how other people help them move towards success or even helped them overcome some obstacles. In this book, the author includes Keller’s teacher. Without her teacher, Annie, Helen Keller would not have accomplished so much in her lifetime. Another thing I love about the book is the mini-biographies found throughout the book. Such people featured in the book are Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Louis Braille, and Alexander Graham Bell.
The flaw of the book is that it focuses too heavily on Keller’s childhood. A very small percentage of the book is devoted to covering her adulthood. Due to the way the book is written the reader gets a great sense of Keller’s personality as a child, but little on what she was like as an adult. Even with this major flaw I still feel the book is a great biography about the life of Helen Keller for 3-4 graders.½

"Who was Eleanor Roosevelt" is a biography on Eleanor Roosevelt. The book tells you all about her childhood and how she grew up. The book also tells you about her carries and it tells you about the important things she did. In the book it said that Eleanor she wanted to help everyone. Even when Eleanor and Franklin were out of the White House she went to meet other leaders to see how she could help their country.

I enjoyed reading this book because it was a biography but it didn’t have too little or too many words. It was also a ver light read. I really like this book because I didn’t know much about her. Now that I have read this book I know all about the important things that she did and believed in. I learned so much. I think that this book is a great read if you want to learn about someone in a short amount of time. I would recommend this book to someone in the grades of fourth to seventh.

Apparently agricultural workers built the Great Pyramid at Giza during the four months when the land around the Nile flooded. What an inspiring example of economic diversification for our own hill farmers.

This book is perfect for teaching children about Helen Keller, It talks about her childhood and how she became ill resulting in her losing her hearing and site. It then goes on to talk about how she was mute and the struggles she had to deal with. Then through touching water, Helen learned how to talk and feel peoples voices to understand and communicate with those around her. I enjoyed this book and found it to be informational and inspiring.

This is a wonderful book for children to read the true story of Helen Keller. Her story is a powerful one of triumph over adversity in the face of unlikely odds. This is a great biography for children to read because it is a true story of triumph through hardships. Children cna relate to Helen Keller through many ways because every child struggles at some point in their life. Having a role model like Helen Keller can motivate students to push through and finish what they start and conquer their hardships and reach their goals

"Who was Helen Keller" is an Biography about the life go Hellen Keller. At the age of two Keller became deaf and blind and stuggled with silence and a life of loneliness until one teacher came to her aid and helped her learn to read and write. My personal reaction to the book was I liked reading and learning about another person life. I also liked knowing it was all true, biographies make you feel like you actually knew the person because you are learning so much about their life. A classroom extension could be for using the information of the book to have children write an essay about the person.

I think this would be a good book for a 4th or 5th grade class to use as a research novel. If I was doing a history lesson in 5th grade I would use this to introduce a different part of history that most people do not think about. It would connect nicely with an ELA informational text standard with chronological order and sequencing events while learning information relating to history. For a 4th grade class I would use this to talk about character traits and have the students focus on Eleanor and other characters' traits and discuss them as a class. It would be a good opportunity to introduce some new describing words to expand their vocabulary and get them thinking about what makes characters unique and how their traits relate to a topic. It is very obvious that Eleanor was a strong, independent, smart woman and having students thinking about these will give them a better understanding of all the wonderful things she accomplished throughout her life.