Alvin Robert Cunningham
Auteur de A Letter for Mr. Lincoln (Cover-to-Cover Books: Historical Moments)
Séries
Œuvres de Alvin Robert Cunningham
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Cunningham, Alvin Robert
- Date de naissance
- 1943-04-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Streator, Illinois, USA
Ottawa, Illinois, USA - Études
- Indiana University
Northern Illinois University (BS in Education), graduate classes - Professions
- teacher (retired)
- Relations
- Cunningham, Rita (wife)
Cunningham, Greg (son)
McKean, Shelly (daughter) - Organisations
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
National Education Association - Prix et distinctions
- Who's Who Among America's Teachers (1992)
- Courte biographie
- Alvin Robert Cunningham is a retired educator of 34 years. He taught American History at Henry High School in Henry, Illinois and Social Studies in the Ottawa Elementary Schools in Ottawa, Illinois. About ten years before retirement, Cunningham started pursing his dream of becoming a children's book author. After many rejections and much perserverance, he managed to secure some royalty contracts for his work with some smaller publishers. Now, Cunningham is currently writing historical fiction/nonfiction, student-edition books for reading programs for educational publishers that are marketed to schools throughout the United States. They are also sold to online bookstores and shopping centers. With his books, Cunningham feels that children are able to identify with the young, main characters and learn about important events in American history at the same time.
Membres
Critiques
This is a wonderful collection of 62 humorous and zany poems about what students really experience in their school world. These poems will even tickle the memories of many adults. This book is bound to make parents and their school-age children have a good laugh together!
[This review was written by the author: Alvin Robert Cunningham]
[This review was written by the author: Alvin Robert Cunningham]
Adjusting to a new school is always difficult, but to Terry Crompton it seems an insurmountable problem without the guidance of his father, who was killed in an automobile accident recently. Roosevelt Elementary, in a south Chicago suburb, is altogether different from the school Terry had attended, and he wishes he could run away to Wisconson where he had been happy.
Gradually, he learns to cope with the bigger school, the class bully, and his own feelings, as he recalls lessons and vallues instilled in him by his father.
[The review was written by the author, Alvin Robert Cunningham]… (plus d'informations)
Gradually, he learns to cope with the bigger school, the class bully, and his own feelings, as he recalls lessons and vallues instilled in him by his father.
[The review was written by the author, Alvin Robert Cunningham]… (plus d'informations)
After returning from Ford's theatre the night President Abraham Lincoln is shot, a young girl writes a letter to her hero. The book also provides information about the shooting of President Lincoln, Ford's Theatre today, and the Civil War.
This children's book (ages 8-11) is illustrated and contains archival photographs and drawings. It also includes bolded vocabulary sidebars.
Children will be able to identify with the young, main character and learn about an important event in American history at the same time.
[This review was written by the author, Alvin Robert Cunningham]… (plus d'informations)
This children's book (ages 8-11) is illustrated and contains archival photographs and drawings. It also includes bolded vocabulary sidebars.
Children will be able to identify with the young, main character and learn about an important event in American history at the same time.
[This review was written by the author, Alvin Robert Cunningham]… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 45
- Popularité
- #340,917
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 18
- Favoris
- 1
■ Nonfiction cyclic recount
■ Third person
■ Past tense
■ Detailed descriptive writing causing reflective reading
■ Time sequence in two-hour intervals, clock and text match
■ Vocabulary probably unfamiliar: sun-warmed, dunked, swatted,
twelve o’clock noon
■ Range of verbs describing action and creating mood
■ Alliteration: swished and swatted, dipped and dunked
■ Many of the concepts cannot be illustrated
■ Decoding and comprehending unfamiliar vocabulary
■ Decoding skills: blends, syllables, compound words, hyphen
changing function of words (sun-warmed as adjective)
■ Inferential viewing of illustrations, understanding mood
■ Understanding setting as time and place
■ Understanding time sequence providing a text framework
■ Understanding how the text influences reading pace and
thought
■ Making associations with words of similar meaning
■ Understanding… (plus d'informations)