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I'd use this book in a class of fourth or fifth graders and teach them how to pull the dates of her important events and put them in chronological order. We could read the book and then they could create a timeline and I could even cut out events and have them sort them in the order they occurred to help them connect what they read.

This book would be great to use with fourth and fifth graders as an independent read based on more simplistic text use and can be used as an example of how to create and plan a timeline. Students can use this book for a project based on the creation of categorizing dates and events into a timeline including the main events and the more impactful events that took place in J.K. Rowling's life that got her to where she is now.

I would use this book as a part of a biography unit where 5th grade students choose a figure and read a biography. This book is perfect for a biography project because it has a lot of dates and information, it covers her personal life and professional life, and it also covers her life from the beginning to present, so it is complete. I would also use this book to teach 5th grade students how to make a timeline of someone’s life, and have them use it to pull dates and information to create a time line of her life. This book would be great for that because the text is rich in information and dates that students could easily pull out of the text.

I liked this book for two reasons. First, I like how, although it is a chapter book, there are still images. The images represent what is happening in J.K. Rowling's life at the time, and they help to break up the book, instead of just having a constant stream of words. I also like the story that the book tells. It describes how J.K. Rowling went from rags to riches and how she came up with the idea of Harry Potter on a train ride. This is a side of the story that we rarely hear about, and it was fun to read about the author herself. The big idea in this story would be to never give up on your dreams and to keep pursuing what you want in life, because you never know when it might happen. ( )