Rules by Cynthia Lord
Realistic Fiction/Disabilities/Chapter Book/Newberry Honor
This book is about a 12 year old girl who has an 8 year old brother with autism. The narrator and main characer, Catherine, has a list of rules that she gives to her brother, David, to help him understand things he has trouble with due to his disability. Throughout the book, Catherine befriends a boy who is unable to speak or walk, and learns to accept others as well as herself.
This book is one that I felt I could do a lot with academically. When looking through the standards, I found 4 that I would consider using for this:
RL.4.1 - refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. This story has quite a few places where inferences can be made, especially about how the narrator is feeling and why she feels that way.
RL.4.2 - determine the theme of a story from details in the text; summarize the text and RL.4.3 - describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story, drawing on specific details in the text. There are a lot of issues addressed in this story - autism, disabilities, and the difficulties associated with disabilities for starters. There are also themes of friendship, family, parental neglect, and acceptance. These are themes and issues that students can relate to and discuss rather easily.
RL.5.6 - Describe how a narrator's point of view influences how events are described. One reason I loved this book so much was because the narrator was so candid, and the reader was able to hear a lot of her deep, personal thoughts. If the book was narrated from a different point of view, we wouldn't have so much information about her personal thoughts. This is a good text to address the importance of point of view and think about what might change if someone else tells the story.
Lord, C. (2006). Rules. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
This book is one that I felt I could do a lot with academically. When looking through the standards, I found 4 that I would consider using for this:
RL.4.1 - refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. This story has quite a few places where inferences can be made, especially about how the narrator is feeling and why she feels that way.
RL.4.2 - determine the theme of a story from details in the text; summarize the text and RL.4.3 - describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story, drawing on specific details in the text. There are a lot of issues addressed in this story - autism, disabilities, and the difficulties associated with disabilities for starters. There are also themes of friendship, family, parental neglect, and acceptance. These are themes and issues that students can relate to and discuss rather easily.
RL.5.6 - Describe how a narrator's point of view influences how events are described. One reason I loved this book so much was because the narrator was so candid, and the reader was able to hear a lot of her deep, personal thoughts. If the book was narrated from a different point of view, we wouldn't have so much information about her personal thoughts. This is a good text to address the importance of point of view and think about what might change if someone else tells the story.
Lord, C. (2006). Rules. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.
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