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Slide1
Why Picture Books
Picture books are non threatening (shorter, pictures)
Picture books are focused
Picture books set a purpose for learning
Picture books provide a common knowledge background
Picture books activate thinking on a visual level
Picture books build reading comprehension
Picture books provide examples of figurative language and writing techniques
Picture books can breathe life into dry facts and figures
Picture books can make abstract concepts concrete
Picture books can teach critical thinking skills
Picture books can tell their stories with amazing illustrations
Picture books are fun Slide2
Universal themes
(
Picture books Across the Curriculum p.16)
Abandonment
Acceptance
Accomplishment
Adventure
Anxiety
Appreciation
Appreciation of
Nature
Attitude
Balance
Belonging
Brotherhood
Cause and Effect
Challenge
Change
Choices
Collaboration
Coming of Age
Commitment
Communication
Community Culture
Compassion
Compromise
Concern
Conflict
Conflict Resolution
Conformity
Connections
Consequences
Consideration
Cooperation
Courage
Cycles
Denial
Determination
Devotion
Differences
Dignity
Discovery
Empathy
Enthusiasm
Environment
Escape
Excellence
Exploration
Facing Fear
Fairness
Faith
Fame
Family
Fear
Forgiveness
Freedom
Friendship
Generations
Goals
Gratitude
Heroism
Honesty
Honor
Hope
Humility
Humor
Identity
Imagination
Individuality
Influence
Ingenuity
Initiation
Innocence
Innovation
Inspiration
Integrity
Interdependence
Isolation
Justice
Kindness
Leadership
Loneliness
Loss
Love
Loyalty
Magnitude
Memory
Nature
New Experiences
Opportunity
Optimism
Order vs. Chaos
Origins
Parallelism
Patience
Patriotism
Patterns
Peace
Peer Pressure
Perseverance
Perspectives
Point of View
Possibilities
Power
Prejudice
Pride
Problem Solving
Reciprocity
Reflection
Relationships
Relativity
Resourcefulness
Respect
Responsibility
Self Awareness
Self Discipline
Self Esteem
Self Respect
Self Sacrifice
Sensitivity
Social Change
Structure
Success
Survival
Sympathy
Systems
Tolerance
Tradition
Tragedy
Transformation
Uncertainty
Virtue
Wisdom
WorkSlide3
Writing T
echniques
Adding details -Adding a details after a fact makes it more interesting to read
Similes -
Using like or as to compare two things that are not really alike (wise as an owl, busy as a bee
)
Anchor
lines- a repeated line throughout a story
(There was an old lady who swallowed a …)
First Impressions- books that start with a problem, dialogue or conversation, simple statement or fact, a question, an action , a sound
Voice- Characters have a voice and give great meaning to the story
Six
senses- Words that describe the six senses (sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, feeling)
vocabulary
Writing
in the third person – First person is when the writer is telling the story, third person is when the person sounds like they are outside of the story Slide4
Writing T
echniques
Personification- when writers write about an object as if it were a person , they add human qualities to an inanimate object (The Tortoise and the Hare)
Dialogue- when characters are talking in a story
Onomatopoeia- when the writer uses sound words (oink, bang)
Alliteration – Repetition of initial consonant sounds (she sells seashells by the seashore)
Flashback- Interruption of a present action to insert an event that happened earlier to make the current situation make sense
Irony- A contrast - between expectation and reality- between what is said and what is meant, between what appears to be true and what really is true, between what is expected and what actually happens. Cinderella is a good example. Parody – a humorous , but recognisable, imitation of literature, art or music for the purpose of amusement or ridicule. The True Story of the Three little Pigs and fractured fairy tales
Slide5
Activities
1.Distribute and read over the handout
2. Divide into two small groups. Each teacher will read a story. Listen to the story and record examples of literary devices on the handout.
Suggested read
alouds
The
Matchbox Diary- 10 min Students: Think about the universal theme(s) in the and look for writing techniquesThe Peace Book- Todd Parr- 10 min for both stories Students: Think about the universal theme(s) in the and look for writing
techniques
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Munsch
Students: Think about the universal theme(s) in the and look for writing techniquesSlide6
Whole Class Activity
Explore and read the picture books
find examples of all the writing techniques (if you can) and record on blackline masterwrite down the main universal theme “big idea” of the
stories you read
on blackline master
Closing: Present
a book of choice
- Share the universal theme and writing techniques used (can read the whole story or just summarise) Slide7
References
Workshop notes from
Picture Books Across the Curriculum, presented by Keith Schoch
Reading and Writing Power
by Adrienne Geer