Principal’s Strategy Books for 2008/2009 Reading/Schema & Writing/Ideas—Something Beautiful-Sharon Dennis Wyeth (August) Reading/Visualizing & Writing/Organization—Bats at the Beach-Brian Lies (September/October) Reading/Questioning & Writing/Voice—Winter’s Gift-Jane Monroe Donovan (November/December) Reading/Determining Importance & Writing/Word Choice—(January) K-I Already Knew I Love You-Billy Crystal 1st-My Baseball Book-Gail Gibbons 2nd-Out of the Ballpark-Alex Rodriguez 3rd-Stealing Home-Jackie Robinson: Against All Odds 4th-Baseball Saved Us-Ken Mochizuki 5th-In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson-Bette Bao Lord Hall and O’Grady-H is for Home Run-A Baseball Alphabet-Brad Herzog Reading/Inferring & Writing/Sentence Fluency—The Lady in the Box-Marni Backer (February) Reading/Synthesis & Writing/Conventions—Amos and Boris-William Steig & Punctuation Takes a Vacation-Robin Pulver (March) Reading/Monitoring for Meaning & Writing/Presentation—Courage-Bernard Weber (April & May)