Reading Chats: Recent Episodes
Jessie
Discussion guides to children’s literature.
Reading. Children. Literature. Education. Fun. Learning.
Discussion of this sweet book that explores resilience and a teen finding her way in Michigan during the early 1900s. Setting, themes, characters, plot.
Discussion of the book Granted by John David Anderson. We cover the plot summary, characters, and theme all in one episode. #perseverance
Focus on the Good Triumph over Evil theme. Mention a couple of other themes for this story. #youngreaders.
An outline summary of the Plot. Two story lines that converge. Nice resolution. #youngreaders #enmagicked
Main themes from the book and how Esperanza is an example of these themes. #young readers #Persevere #Hope
Opening overview of Esperanza Rising. Outline of the plot. Mention of most main characters.
In the third episode of this serious we focus on the theme of this book. I mention several possible themes, and I’m sure there are more. But my top theme for this book is Acceptance.
We focus on the two main characters of A Snicker of Magic. Overview their strengths and growth.
We start discussing “A Snicker of Magic” by Natalie Lloyd. This is a great, positive, hopeful book. We keep this episode brief and look ahead to the next episode where we will dive more into the main characters.
This time we are discussing the themes we find in the novel. Debbi shares hers and I share mine. We hope you found a theme and maybe it’s different than ours.
In this episode we discuss the rest of the characters in the novel The War that Saved My Life. Our Literature expert, Debbi, joins us.
Our guest host, Debbi, helps us delve further into character analysis. This episode focuses on Ada.
This episode outlines the plot through a brief outline of the development of the actions that take place. We have former Literature teacher with us again for this discussion.
In this episode, we introduce the book and discuss the setting. We have former teacher, Debbi, joining us for all of our episodes about this book.
We discuss the themes seen in this novel: greed, selfishness, and coming of age. Concludes season 1.
This episodes discusses each of the characters in the story, the Chocolate Touch by Catlin. Which was your favorite? Who did you relate to the most?
In this first episode of our children’s literature discussion, we summarize the plot events from The Chocolate Touch. Our next episodes will go further in depth into literary elements of this story, characters, and themes.
Each season will be a different book. We are open to suggestions! Let us know what you’d love to hear discussed.