Ivy & Bean: Break the Fossil Record is book 3 in the series. In this book Bean becomes obsessed with getting in the Guinness Book of World records after her teacher shows it to her. After several failed attempts at breaking a world record her friend Ivy tells her about a paleontologist she was reading about. Soon Ivy and Bean start digging for dinosaur bones and realize that they could in fact be the youngest paleontologist ever! Do Ivy and Bean find dinosaur bones? Do they get into the Guinness Book of World Records? You can be sure that a 4th or 5th grade girl will be totally engaged to find out.
I have been reading this book with a reading buddy who is also an ESOL student. This book is good for helping to introduce vocabulary and assess simple comprehension. The chapters are short and there are some pictures but the wording is clear and has lots of situations that a great for teaching inferencing.
Aside from using this with an individual student I think that this book would be great to use in a girls book club in the classroom, primarily in the 3rd and 4th grades. I think that it would spark much discussion between the girls about breaking records, occupations (especially those not normally associated with women like paleontology), and friendship. I also like that the book is part of a series so it can always be used in an author study as well.
Yes, I agree with you. This would be a great book for a girls book club in the younger grades. I love reading them with my girls, and I am sure that they would love to read and discuss them in a group.
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