Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book

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A Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book | Phil Bildner

Iowa Children‘s Choice nominee and I‘ve heard it is a great friendship book!

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Whole New Ballgame: A Rip and Red Book | Phil Bildner

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A Whole New Ballgame is a RF Sunshine State Younger Readers award nominated novel. This novel is about two best friends, Rip and Red, who are now fifth graders. They struggle with the adjustment because their new teacher, who also happens to be their new basketball coach, isn't like ones they have had before;

DominiqueL He has a lot of tattoos and piercings, doesn‘t believe in homework or tests and would rather be reading aloud to the class or having them free read. Rip is out of his comfort zone, but Red is struggling even more. Red has autism and he needs things to be a specific way. Through this book, the two friends have to help one another overcome some of their struggles and get through the fifth grade. 7y

DominiqueL This book is fantastic because it is teaching students that people are much more than the simple labels that they are given. I absolutely love this story and the illustrations are really cool. This book is great for IR, RA, and LC. Rip and Red have a best friend handshake, and I think that it would be really fun to as a class learn the handshake. 7y

DominiqueL https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/teachers-guides/9781250079763TG.pdf This website provides a teacher's guide with instructional activities for the books in the Rip and Red series. For this book, I would have the students learn about idioms and proverbial sayings.
UDL: 3.1 Activate or supply background knowledge, 2.4 Promote understanding across languages, 2.5 Illustrate through multiple media, 5.1 Use multiple media for communication 7y

DominiqueL ESOL: Continually monitor students‘ comprehension, Link lesson topic to students‘ prior knowledge, Record your lectures, presentations, or stories on audiotape, especially for new students who have very limited exposure to English, Give enough wait time for second language learners to respond to questions, Incorporate the culture and the language of second language learners in your curriculum
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