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This is one of our two easy readers (a.k.a. early readers) for our second class. We talked about the difference between picture books and easy readers. How well do you think this book works? Clearly it's for somewhat more fluent readers than the Elephant and Piggy books. Do the situations...
Molly Bang's Picture This is her personal exploration as she tries to analyze the emotional effects of art. Most illustrators go with their gut as they compose their pictures, but Molly wanted to see if there were some rules involved as well. An experienced illustrator, she says she began to...
The additional reading for our first class comes from Horn Book Magazine's classic 1998 special issue on picture books. After you've read them, please come back to this post to comment. And as always, I hope this discussion will include more than just my students!The articles in question are"The Words"...
The great children's literature specialist Rudine Sims Bishop has talked and written about books for children needing to be both windows and mirrors. This book seems to me to be the epitome of that idea.There's so much to talk about here, so I'm looking forward to what you all have...
Here's our very first post for the books my students will be reading this semester. Our first class is Thursday night, Feb. 27, and they're all supposed to discuss one of the readings for the week in the comments I am hoping the rest of you will comment and discuss,...
Bernardo is a second grader. Today his teacher is reading about the origins of the Amazon River to the class. Bernardo knows the river because it is right by his grandma’s house.The reading today says that the Amazon is the widest, vastest, and most plentiful river in the world. He...
Make sure you're in attendance at Lolly's Classroom, which today takes on the topic of book reports that are a) fun for kids and b) not too much work for Teacher.Also, I hope you can come to our Children's Books Boston event tomorrow night (rescheduled from last week), where I'm...
The book nook in Elizabeth's classroomMy middle school remedial reading students come to me with a wide variety of reading profiles, interests and needs. Yet one thing almost all of my students have in common is that they begin the year as students who have spent very little time reading....
It is said that it is important for children to see and read about positive representations of themselves in popular culture. As books, films and television begin to feature more and more diversity, there is one minority group that seems slower to find itself in the spotlight – Deaf and...
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