A good picture book exposes children of all ages to quality literature, enhancing learning and teaching them a great deal about writing. How words hook the reader at the beginning of the story. How words form sentences and paragraphs and, finally, an organized story with a beginning, middle, and end. How precise word choices show actions, descriptions, and feelings.
General Lesson Plan Learning Objectives: What should students know and be able to do as a result of this lesson? When given an illustration in a picture book, students will be able to describe the characters, plot, or events in the story.
Students will be able to describe the sequence of events in correct order based on provided illustrations. Students will be able to write an organized narrative that includes temporal words to signal event order. What prior knowledge should students have for this lesson?
Students should be able to write complete sentences. Based on grade level language standards, students should be able to use correct capitalization and punctuation in their writing.
Students should have had some experience with describing or determining a sequence of events and using words that signal event order. What are the guiding questions for this lesson?
What does the picture tell us about the how the character is feeling? Based on the picture, what do you think will happen next in the story? Can you describe the setting in this story? When and where is this scene or story happening?
Can you imagine yourself as the character?
What would you be feeling or doing? How will the teacher present the concept or skill to students? The teacher will present a photograph of children playing on the beach. If you have an LCD projector or overhead projector you can project the image on the board.
The teacher will then ask the students questions about the picture: At this point it is important to remind students that there are no "right" or "wrong" answers; it is all about what they think is happening in the picture.
Many students will draw on past experiences of going to the beach with their families. The teacher will write the following questions on the board and then ask students:4) Supermoo's New Adventures.
Based on the book "Supermoo" by Babette Cole. Read the story through with the children. Discuss the main characters (Supermoo, Calf Crypton, the BOTS, Miss Pimple's class), and ask the children to produce a new adventure for a series of new Supermoo books.
Create engaging stories for the youngest readers! Writing picture books takes a unique set of skills. After all, you only have thirty-two pages to bring your story to life for readers ages two to eight, and the adults in their lives.
I went to a workshop that suggested using million dollar words to enhance student writing. I thought of making that my word wall. Basically, you take a word like "said" and brainstorm all the more descriptive words that could be used instead like yelled, whispered, stated, etc.
Picture books as pre-writing activities Did you know that you can help prepare your child to write by reading a picture book together? A good picture book exposes children of all ages to quality literature, enhancing learning and teaching them a great deal about writing.
Gloria Rothstein's book, "Writing Activities Based on Favorite Picture Books", is great for parents who want to help their kids become better writers.
Writing activites are based on the texts of picture books and are so kid-friendly.5/5(1). I've been working hard to give kids and teachers activities to use to help with creative writing. If you've been to one of my workshops, you know creativity is fantastic .