This will encourage the child who feels like a failure and the teacher who cares. In this autobiographical story, Little Trisha, overjoyed at the thought of learning how to read struggles when she finds that all the letters and numbers. Trisha isn't idealized: we see her messy and desperate, poring over her books. As always she tells the story with intense emotion: no understatement here reading is 'torture.' The big line-and-watercolor illustrations are bright with color and theatrical gesture, expressing the child's happiness with her grandparents in a family of readers, her fear and loneliness in the classroom ('she hated hated hated school'), her anguish when the kids jeer at her in the schoolyard, and her joy when finally she reads the words on the page ('she was happy, so very happy'). It will also help remind parents, teachers, and others how much a little extra support and encouragement can completely change a child’s trajectory in life. 'That little girl was me,' Polacco says in a final note. Falke r is perfect for ANY child struggling with confidence and in need of extra encouragement but it will resonate especially with students who are struggling with reading. Falker Hardcover Picture Book, Apby Patricia Polacco (Author) 1,452 ratings Teachers pick See all formats and editions Kindle 9. Who would believe that this gifted storyteller had started off with a serious learning disability? From kindergarten on, Trisha gets attention because she can draw but she hides the fact that she can't read-all she sees on the page are 'wiggling shapes' -until her fifth-grade teacher discovers Trisha's problem, gets her special help, and sets her free. Falker by Patricia Polacco Level: M/28 ISBN: 0-49-09836-X Publisher: Scholastic. At Trisha’s new school in California, what did the children call her Dumb.

Trisha’s grandma said that stars were holes in the sky. Like many of Polacco's picture-book stories, this one is autobiographical. What couldn’t Trisha do as well as the other first graders Read 2.

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