Dork diaries Tales from a NOT-SO-Popular Party Girl
Illustrated by: Rachel Renee Russell
Dork diaries Tales from a NOT-SO-Popular Party Girl illustrated by Rachel Renee Russell is a picturebook and chapter book. The whole entire book is filled with visual's for the reader to understand what is going on in the dairy. The book would be appropriate for intermedate grades mostly young girls because by looking at the front cover is screams girly. Also, the genre that this book belongs in is realistic fiction because the events and settings in this book can happen in real life. (Literature and the child pg 17) The setting of this story is around october and at the school that Niki the main character goes to.
This book is about a young girl name Niki who has a crush on a young boy named Brandon and wants to go to a halloween party with him. Little does she know she has competition with Mackenzie the "popular" girl who is trying to steal Brandon away from her. The picture above represents the style of the book. How Rachel Renee Russell, brings the journal to life by keeping it on paper that was in the diary. Young girls can relate to page four, because who hasn't written the name of the crush that they have with hearts around it "<3 BRANDON <3" (Dork diaries Tales from a NOT-SO-Popular Party Girl pg 4) With the way that the style of the book is written, readers can get the feeling like he or she is reading it straight out of the diary. They can picture themselves as the main character. The text in this book is very appropriate for young readers. The pictures in the book, are a good source for the reader(s) to look back at if the text gets confusing.
The picture above shows Niki hard at work writting in her journal. Here is a website that viewer(s) can go to and get more information about the book: http://www.dorkdiaries.com/dork-diaries-2/ With this website it provides an audio tape, a summary of the book and more activites. Some activities that students can do with this book are: write his or her own diary (not too personal but will be kept between student and teacher) and student's can act out the characters by making a similar version of the book. Reader Response Questions:
1) What is the purpose of this book? Why?
2) Why do you think the author wrote this journal?
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Website for Book:
Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2009). Literature and the child. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. pg 17 Print.
Russell, R. R. (2010). Tales from a not-so-popular party girl (Book 2). New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Pub. pg 4 Print.
The Dork Diaries - Additional Classroom Activities:
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B. Have a ten minute diary or journal session each day. Give the students a chance to express their thoughts and feelings on paper. Supervise to make sure the students are doing the work, but don't read the journal, unless they offer you to do so.