Stinky Clothes

by Joanna Emery, Richard Rossi (Illustrator)

A Rookie Reader Level B titles are perfect for the emergent reader. The Level B Rookie is slightly longer than Level A, with more words and longer sentences. Simple text makes reading easy while describing familiar ideas, objects, actions, and vocabulary. Hold your nose around stinky clothes! This rhyming story follows a boy as he helps out with the laundry.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 2005

About the author

Joanna Emery has always had a deep curiosity, a passion for history and a love of writing. She’s enjoyed stories of the icky, fascinating and bizarre. Her father, a forensic pathologist, used to tell her tales of body functions and dissected livers when she was a child. Joanna is the author of six books and numerous articles. She and her husband live with their three children, four cats, one guinea pig and five chickens.

Reviews

[Erika Bowen]

1. Book Summary in your own words
A boy must deal with his dirty clothes without his mother’s help. He’s never done that before. What’s going to happen when he tries to wash, dry, and put them away? Will he do it correctly? Or will he need help?
2. Grade level, interest level, lexile
Grades: K-2
3. Appropriate classroom use (subject area)
Independence, Responsibility
4. Individual students who might benefit from reading
Students who need help learning about responsibility.
5. Small group use (literature circles)
In small groups, students will go through the steps of doing certain chores on their own.
6. Whole class use (read aloud)
As a whole class, we will discuss responsibility and what it means. Students will have the opportunity to tell the class what they do that is responsible.
7. Related books in genre/subject or content area
Water Everywhere! By Christine Taylor-Butler and Just Like Always by Anne M. Perry
8. Multimedia connections (audio book, movie) available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNbh...