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From: Holly Willett <willett>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:59:17 -0400
Katie--Thanks so much for describing and discussing your experience with the Magic School Bus Books and the fifth graders. The notion of MSB having layers is a useful one. If you don't mind, I'd like to read your post to my students.
Susan Griffith mentioned some of the older nonlinear books, and I had been thinking about the earlier Richard Scarry picture books that had text and pictures scattered over the page. They were much loved by preschoolers up to about age 6, tho' some librarians did not like them and called them
"busy". Young readers may have approached them as puzzles or games of discovery in which flexiblity is an asset; they liked "busy"!
Holly
Holly G. Willett willett at rowan.edu Library Education Advisor/Coordinator Secondary Education/Foundations of Education Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028
(609) 256G59
Received on Tue 06 Oct 1998 10:59:17 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:59:17 -0400
Katie--Thanks so much for describing and discussing your experience with the Magic School Bus Books and the fifth graders. The notion of MSB having layers is a useful one. If you don't mind, I'd like to read your post to my students.
Susan Griffith mentioned some of the older nonlinear books, and I had been thinking about the earlier Richard Scarry picture books that had text and pictures scattered over the page. They were much loved by preschoolers up to about age 6, tho' some librarians did not like them and called them
"busy". Young readers may have approached them as puzzles or games of discovery in which flexiblity is an asset; they liked "busy"!
Holly
Holly G. Willett willett at rowan.edu Library Education Advisor/Coordinator Secondary Education/Foundations of Education Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028
(609) 256G59
Received on Tue 06 Oct 1998 10:59:17 AM CDT
