Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl
Marrin, A. (2009). Years of dust: The story of the dust bowl. New
York, NY: Dutton Children’s Books.
Summary: This is a non-fiction book about the Dust Bowl that occurred in the United
States and Canada in the 1930s. The dust
bowl was caused by wind storms blowing across the prairies during a drought
creating storms of dust. The book has
great text features such as maps,
diagrams, tables, pictures, and captions.
The photographs are especially striking; for example, the photograph of
Franklin D. Roosevelt takes up pages 94 and 95 and is fascinating.
Reflection: My students complete a history fair project
toward the end of the year. This book
would be a great resource to give to them during their research. There are various text features on every page
that add to the text, so this book would also be great to use when teaching
about text features.
Classroom Connection: I will be using this book as part of a text
feature lesson that involves task cards.
I will use this book and 22 others (one for each student) and give each
student a task card. The task cards will
ask them to use the text features to find information about a topic. They will pass the books and task cards until
they have completed them all. This
lesson meets the following 3rd grade standard:
·
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools
(e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a
given topic efficiently.
Big Questions: Do you wish you had lived during the dust
bowl? Why or why not?
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