and Tilly is a touching story about two best friends that did everything together, They end up having an argument and say mean words to each other when Matthew accidentally breaks Tilly's crayon.
At the end they learn how valuable their friendship is they forgive each other, Students can learn from this book that arguing with friends doesn't solve a problem and isn't worth loosing the friendship.
It's so important that students are all friends with each other so that they can be a community in the classroom.
Each student can write a letter to one of their classmates about something that they find special about them and what makes them a good friend.
Students will not only learn literacy, but gain confidence in themselves when they hear someone else complimenting them.
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Making Meaning GradeResource Kit I gave this bookbecause even though themain characters are different races, that is never mentioned in the book because that's not the point of the story.
In other words, their friendship is made to look very natural, Matthew amp Tilly look like they are aboutyears old, Matthew is white amp Tilly is black, They do "everything" together: ride bikes, they rescued a cat out of a tree together, eat icecream cones together, etc.
This book is also available in Spanish "Mateo Y Mati, " Mateo is a direct translation of Matthew but I guess since the name Tilly isn't popular in Spanish, they call Tilly, Mati, in the Spanish version of the book.
My only complaint about the book is that the colors are mostly in earth tones,
I could use this book as part of a literacy lesson by creating a discussion with my class about things that they like to do with their friends.
I have found that students like talking about their families amp friends, so that would be a good opportunity to get "quiet" students to speak up.
Matthew and Tilly by Rebecca C, Jones, illustrated by Beth Peck one of those beautiful stories of people living in a diverse neighborhood in a large city, specifically focused on two friends who have an argument and find a way to forgive one another so they can have fun again.
This is a nice story about friendship, Everyone needs some time away but even then, you can still be friends, We discussed name calling and what to do instead, This picture book is about two friends from the city Matthew and Tilly who spent allday and everyday together.
They colored together and chew gum together, They were best friends. One day while coloring Matthew accidently broke Tillys crayon, Offended Tilly and Matthew exchange their negative feelings using words and storm off in anguish to discover that playing alone is not fun.
The friends come back together and apologize for their words, The story line by Jones expresses the issues that friends go through in the busy city, Although Joness recent work is nonfiction, her past work, as well as Matthew and Tilly, were based off her experiences or the experiences of people she knew.
She gives great verbal presentation of how friends use their words when angry and also to solve problems.
The vocabulary in the text is a great opportunity to focused and discussed on “not nice” words with students.
Instead of the angry words chosen in the book, have the students rewrite a new solution to Matthew and Tillys dispute.
This book will be used with friendship and diversity because of its vocabulary choice, This gives evidence to the fact that sometimes friends argue and say ugly things, however they should still come back together and work on their friendship.
"Mateo y Mati"
Lo leí en español, Masterful realistic fiction for the young learner, a good little read about friendship This narrative is about two young boys, Matthew and Tilly, who were best friends.
They did everything together, from selling lemonade together, to rescuing a lady's kitten from a tree together, Rebecca C. Jones, the author, shows that like all friends, Matthew and Tilly fought, and then they made up, As a teacher, I would use this book to show students that friends may fight and argue, but they can always make up ex.
"I'm sorry," he called. "So am I," said Tilly, These silly things happen all of the time in the classroom, where someone may take a crayon from someone else, or say something hurtful to someone else.
I would use the book to make it a teachable moment to the class after an incident like that.
I appreciate Jones because she wrote about something that is very common with children in, and out of, the classroom.
I also appreciate the realistic pictures by Beth Peck, although they could have been a little less dull.
This beautiful story about two children having a fallout and finding their back together is a great book about true friendship.
I especially enjoy the two main characters, being African American and white, and also boy and girl, To me, it tells me that children play together no matter what they look like, To them, it doesn't even matter, They still have arguments and they still make up, Wonderful story about friendship and forgiveness, Way Yuck Matthew and Tilly are best friends who do everything together, suck as playing store and sharing icecream cones.
And like all friends, sometimes they disagree, Their experience is common to many children the milieu where they live is
not, They live in an ethnically mixed neighborhood of shops, apartments, and street life, Fullcolor illustrations. .
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