HIT Using Pic books to teach....

[Lee and Lisa Smith <lsmith@watervalley.net>]

Okay....I am thinking this is how to post a HIT....If I am wrong forgive me.

These are the answers I received!
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I love using picture books with
older students. A few of my favorites:
The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Dear Peter Rabbit by Alma Flor Ada
Yours Truly, Goldilocks by Alma Flor Ada
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka
Chatos's Kitchen by Gary Soto
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by
 Eugene Trivizas
Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
Encounter by Jane Yolen
Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson
Baby Coyote and the Old Woman by
 Carmen Tafolla

Good luck.
Mary Milligan
Saint Luke's Episcopal School
San Antonio, Tx.
milligan@saintlukes.net
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Check out Jon Scieszka's "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid
Tales"  (Or something very close to that)  I use it in the library when I
want to grab my 4th-5th graders for 'parts of a book' .  Look at it with
that in mind & I think you'll see what I mean.  Try for a copy with the dust
cover on it.
I also like the "Z is Zapped" by Chris Van Allsburg, and " Anamalia" by
Graeme Base, to encourage language usage.  Good for kids like mine that are
language poor.

Enjoy,  Pam

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I have often used picture books with more lofty concepts to teach my older
but
weaker readers.  Two that come to mind are any picture books by Fred Gwinn,
aka Hermann Munster.  He has these books (3, I think) such as The King Who
Rained, that take common colloquials and illustrate what they could actually
mean if taken literally.  Also, anything John Scieska and/or Lane Smith are
involved in are great.  For example, Stinky Cheese Man offers an opportunity
to consider the conventional matter in which most books are organized, as
well
as much fodder for fairy tale projects.  Their latest attacks fables in much
the same vein.

Hope this helps!

Leya Booth
Librarian
Valley Beth Shalom Day School
Encino, CA
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'Regarding the Fountain' by Kate Klise is a great book for teaching all
types o f writing correspondence skills that is very appropriate for 6th
graders.  It is a very amusing book, too.
Louise Prescott, Library Media specialist
Accompsett Elementary School
Smithtown, NY

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Oryx publishing has t wo books that have a title something like Using
Picutre Story Books To Teach Literary Devices vol. 1 and 2 that I have in
our library and refer to often when a teacher has a need for a suggestion.
You can read about these at www.oryxpress.com.

Connie Welch, Librarian
O.L.P.H. School
Grove City, OH 43123
cwelch@SoftHome.net
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You may want to take a look at Double Trouble in Walla Walla, which has
doubles all through it. It would fit into descriptive language most likely,
or possibly slang.

In my children's literature course, the professor
suggested using picture books as lead ins to
units such as The wall by Eve Bunting for Vietnam
War unit, and Hiroshima non Pica for World war
II.

Are you familiar with the Maus comic books?  They
are very quick reads depicting the Holocaust.

I hope you get a lot of good suggestions and post
a hit.




Mary Ziller
Seasonal Librarian
Overbrook Park Library
Philadelphia, PA
cdslibrary@xoommail.com
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Sent an email from our database that lists several resources with activities
explained inside.  Maybe you can get from area libraries nearby?

Ruth Jean Shaw
Lirary Resources
Anchorage School District
1901 South Bragaw
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
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It may sound silly but one way that I taught my primary students English
skills was to use nursery rhymes.  We worked on one a week and there are so
many things you can do with them!

Also, the Very Hungry Caterpillar - we ordered caterpillar larva from Insect
Lore and watched as they became butterflies.  The students were mesmerized
by
the whole process and it worked well with the book.   It also ties in with
life science.  Other Eric Carle books can also be used these ways
(science/language arts).

Junie B. Jones books would be a great way to teach the kids sarcasm.  Also,
books by Fred Gwynne are an excellent way to teach English sayings (i.e.
book
says 3 feet in a yard while the main character imagines actual feet in his
front yard).  Quiet as a Cricket is a good way to teach similes as the
character compares themself to different animals.  Students can then write
similes about themselves.  Finally, Dr. Seuss' There's a Wocket in My Pocket
i
s a good book to use with rhyme.  Students can write their own lines to go
along with this book making up nonsense words that rhyme with a place.  Good
luck!

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