Alexander,+Who+Used+to+be+Rich+Last+Sunday

=Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday= =by Judith Viorst=

__** Summary **__ Last Sunday, Alexander became instantly rich when his grandparents gave him a dollar. Alexander was eager to begin spending his money. There were so many things that Alexander wanted to buy and he quickly found that his money disappeared. Judith Viorst takes the readers on another adventure of Alexander's in the book, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday. Each time Alexander finds a new item that he "needs" the readers see how he has spent all of his money. The book ends as it begins with Alexander having only his bus tokens in his pockets.

__** Review **__ This piece of children's literature can be used in a variety of math lessons. While the teacher reads //Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday// students can follow along and subtract the amount that Alexander spends on each item. This is a good way to used literature to work on addition and subtraction of money. This book can also be used for graphing. The students can used each amount that Alexander spent as a percentage of 100 to create a pie graph.

__** Author Information **__ Judith Viorst is an American author, journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She began her career as a poet and has completed six collections for adults. She is best known for her series of "Alexander" books. This series is based on her youngest of three sons, Alexander who she said, "seemed to have a lot of bad days." She decided to share her happenings with her own son to help other children deal with their 'bad days.' Viorst's most famous book about her son is //Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.// She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, political writer, Milton Viorst.

__** Connection to Literacy **__ This book can be connected to literacy by having the students use a comprehension strategy of sequencing after read the book. The students can repeat the sequence of the book and then create their own story using sequencing. The book could also be used to locate words that end with -ed and -ing to work with students on inflected endings.

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