David Goes to School

David Goes to School by David Shannon is a great book to read with children about to go to school for the first time. Each page is a different experience during school such as recess, lunchtime, and walking in the hallway. This book is a fun way to help children know what to expect during school.

David, a very active young student, has a rough day at school. He keeps getting in trouble. Eventually his teacher has enough of it and makes him clean what he messed up. When he has fixed what did, he’s allowed to go home.

This Contemporary Realistic Fiction book follows young David as he encounters rule after rule in school. David is continually reprimanded for misbehaving and acting like a typical, ornery little boy. After David draws all over his desk, his teacher makes him stay after school to clean the desks. He

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dutifully completes his punishment, is rewarded with a “Good job, David” and a gold star, and heads happily off to home.

David Shannon is one of my favorite children’s authors, and this book has a prominent place on my son’s bookshelf. His illustrations perfectly capture the ornery David and his many escapades. This book is an entertaining read and will always remind me of the hours I’ve spent reading this with my son.

In the classroom I would use this book at the beginning of the school year as a way to talk about some of the expected behavior in the classroom. The simple text and great illustrations provide for plenty of conversation starters about social skills. Another activity idea would be to show the page where David is looking out the window and imagining the dinosaur in the clouds. It would be fun to take the students outside and have them lie down to look at the clouds and discuss what they see happening in the sky. This is also a great book to use with beginning readers to help build their confidence in their reading abilities.

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The illustrator create a wonderful and funny character in David. I would use this book at the begining of the school year with younger children, maybe up to first grade. I would read it once through and then read it again and discuss all the behaviors that David exhibits in the book. My cooperating

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kindergarten teacher during my practicum experience read this book and the students had such wonderful responses to how David behaves and how a good student should behave. As a future parent I would also read this with my child before they start school.

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In this book David takes his skill in trouble making to the classroom. He writes on desks and cuts in line at lunch. In the end like in the other David books he redeems himself. This is another excellent book that can be read to kinders to teach them about how we behave in school and what

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consequences might go along with some of David’s behaviors. This is a great way to begin the year and set up behavior management in a fun and comprehendible way for young students.

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this book is wonderful to look at, its full of pictures with at the most 4 or 5 words on the page. each picture pretty much describes what he is doing, so you understand the response from the teacher written at the bottom of the page. its hand written to look like it was actually written by a

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child. its a great story to read to those who have trouble staying out of trouble in class.

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A funny story that is based on the authors childhood and the way that his teacher would correct him. The illustrations are amazing. He uses clippings from a book he wrote when he was a child to make the bok come alive.

David is now school aged and still finds himself getting into trouble. He learns there are many rules to follow while at school.

This is great for ages pre-k to kindergarten. This is a perfect read-aloud book for children. It will teach them what rules to follow in school.

David Goes to School is an awesome book. I highly recommend not only this book, but the entire David series for early elementary school children. The text in this particular book is easy to read. The book is extremely funny, and children would love it because they can relate to it. David Goes to

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School is also great for prediction reading where students could have open class discussions about what they think David will get into trouble for next.

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Cute book and cute idea. I haven't read the first book (No, David) yet, but this one was decent. Not the most fascinating or clever read. It certainly gave me some stellar flashbacks to my school days, though.

This book started out with the teacher telling David that he has to follow the rules of the classroom including, no yelling, pushing, or running in the halls. David has trouble with being tardy and following the rules. He chews gum in class and has to be reminded to raise his hand. He also has to

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be told to keep his hands to himself and pay attention. He has trouble waiting his turn and starting trouble in the lunchroom. David has to be reminded to do everything in the classsroom to stay on task, but he is rewarded after he stays after school to clean the desks. The teacher finally lets him go home.

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This story is about a boy named David's first day of school. On David's first daqy of school his behavior was horrible. The teacher taught David that good behavior is best in the classroom. I think that this is a great read for students on their first day of school.

Genre: realistic fiction

This is an example of realistic fiction because even though the events are fictitious there is some truth that children misbehave in the classroom. I think that David might have some exceptionalities that are yet to be discovered.

Age Appropriate: primary
Rubric: 21

This is a great illustration of realistic fiction, because the things the teacher says to David are things that I am sure a lot have children have heard. It takes place in a typical school setting as well which makes it easy to identify with.

age app: primary

Genre: realistic fiction

Review: this is a good example of realistic fiction because the reader is able to identify with the main character. Everyone can remember to the days of elementary school when we were just learning how to behave in that sort of setting.

David, the out-of-control monster-child ready to disrupt the class. Shannon remembers the word 'no' all too clearly from his childhood, and, as he says in his introduction, 'It seems that kids haven't changed much over the years, and neither have school rules, some of which date back even further

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than the invention of sneakers.' In David Goes to School, young David shows up late to class, goes wacko at the blackboard, chews gum in class, yells answers out of turn, pulls pigtails, stares out the window, cuts in line, has a food fight ('I don't care who started it!' says the teacher), lingers at recess, and draws on his desk. Colorful, hilarious, childlike illustrations examine our strangely appealing demon-boy at eye level, which is especially disgusting as David stretches an enormous mass of bubble gum from his pointy-toothed maw. After an intense day of exuberant misbehaving, however, he stays after school and washes all the desks until they sparkle. The day ends with a gold star and a pat on the head.

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This books tells the tale of David's adventures at school

What a fantastic read. So much to share and enjoy! The illustrations are engaging, the senarios are believable and humorous. Kids can relate to this really well; and adults should enjoy sharing it with the littlies.

This is a good example of realistic fiction because it is involves a situation that can and often does happen in today's world. The reader can easily see himself in the setting of the book. The character is developed well. He has good and bad qualities that make it easy for the reader to relate to

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him.
Age: Primary

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This is a cute little book about different ways David got in trouble at school. It does not tell much of a story, but it does have excellent full page illustrations!

David Goes to School is a great book for Kindergarten students. It is a book that they can read on their own. There are very few words on the page and they are in large bold print. The is a funny book that will keep the students and interest because they can relate to it. The book is about David

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and his interesting day at school. He gets in all kinds of trouble through out the day but at the end of the he fixes his mistakes and goes home happy. His mom is proud of the good day he had.

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I also read this book to the first graders, and they really liked it. As I read it to them, they described the boy in the story, David, as being bad because he got in so much trouble and had to stay for detention.

David Goes to School is about this little boy misbehaves during school and for his punishment he has to stay late after school and clean off all the desk! This book has great illustrations and would be a great learning connection for young children on discipline in school!