{"id":1870,"date":"2009-10-26T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1870"},"modified":"2009-10-26T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:15:52","slug":"teaching-economics-with-childrens-literature-sally-gets-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/10\/26\/teaching-economics-with-childrens-literature-sally-gets-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Economics With Children’s Literature: Sally Gets A Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sally Gets a Job<\/em>written and illustrated by Stephen Huneck,\u00a0is a book that will appeal to most children. This book is about an adorable black dog who watches its\u00a0family leave for work and school\u00a0each day. One day she wonders if maybe she should get a job. Sally contemplates many different occupations, some that children may have thought of themselves. “I could be a teacher.”\u00a0 This book also introduces jobs that most students probably have never heard of. “Or maybe I should just focus on bones and become a paleontologist.”\u00a0 Sally concludes that she has the best job in the world, “Taking care of my family.”<\/p>\n

One of the best things about this book is the illustrations. Stephen Huneck is a popular artist and well-known for his paintings and sculptures of dogs.\u00a0 Children will gravitate to this book because of its cover, a picture a cute dog reading the help wanted section of the newspaper. They will also enjoy the pictures of Sally driving a school bus full of dogs and\u00a0thinking about\u00a0cleaning up after an elephant.<\/p>\n

Sally Gets a Job<\/em> would be a great introduction in a unit to teach Kindergartners about various jobs. It would expose them to various careers in a fun way.\u00a0(VA SOL K.6)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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