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From: Gerry O'Brien <gobrien>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:22:48 -0300
Dear CCBC Listers,
I hope I'm not off topic here but I do a unit with students that I have always found fun and creative. This does not involve picture books written for older students but picture books written by older students. The first step is to have the librarian supply the class with as many PB's as they can spare [200?]. The students are divided into writing pairs and informed that they are going to be creating a picture book that will be read by them to their books buddies in grade one or two at an "Author's Day" that the primary teacher is organizing[posters, banners refreshments, a seat of honour for the author, sometimes even parents].
Then the reading fest begins. I read several books per day to the students [they are always enthralled, as if they were back in grade one or two]. They also read several PB's per day and this goes on for about a week. Wall to wall picture books! Favourites are discussed and analyzed, discussions on the marriage of text and art to create a perfect union, using effective pages breaks and creating a satisfying ending are part of the daily language arts period. And we read, read, read. They love it. The weak readers in particular love this unit. They're not intimidated by the books or the more advanced readers. In the second week the student pairs begin to write and illustrate. I usually suggest that they do the writing first and the art second[though I don't insist upon it...I wouldn't want someone dictating how I should write]. The results are always wonderful. Finally we laminate the pages and bind them using those plastic spiral binders and we're ready for the "Author's Day". I oral read all of the books
to the class and the authors also oral read them to their classmates before we take them to their book buddies. Practise makes perfect, right? It's always been a great success. The primary students are mightily impressed and it's a great ego boost for the authors. Hope this is of some help to some of you at least. Regards, Gerry www.gerryobrien.ca
"Bubba Begonia, You'll Be Sorry!" Acorn Press PEI, 2006
Received on Tue 26 Sep 2006 06:22:48 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:22:48 -0300
Dear CCBC Listers,
I hope I'm not off topic here but I do a unit with students that I have always found fun and creative. This does not involve picture books written for older students but picture books written by older students. The first step is to have the librarian supply the class with as many PB's as they can spare [200?]. The students are divided into writing pairs and informed that they are going to be creating a picture book that will be read by them to their books buddies in grade one or two at an "Author's Day" that the primary teacher is organizing[posters, banners refreshments, a seat of honour for the author, sometimes even parents].
Then the reading fest begins. I read several books per day to the students [they are always enthralled, as if they were back in grade one or two]. They also read several PB's per day and this goes on for about a week. Wall to wall picture books! Favourites are discussed and analyzed, discussions on the marriage of text and art to create a perfect union, using effective pages breaks and creating a satisfying ending are part of the daily language arts period. And we read, read, read. They love it. The weak readers in particular love this unit. They're not intimidated by the books or the more advanced readers. In the second week the student pairs begin to write and illustrate. I usually suggest that they do the writing first and the art second[though I don't insist upon it...I wouldn't want someone dictating how I should write]. The results are always wonderful. Finally we laminate the pages and bind them using those plastic spiral binders and we're ready for the "Author's Day". I oral read all of the books
to the class and the authors also oral read them to their classmates before we take them to their book buddies. Practise makes perfect, right? It's always been a great success. The primary students are mightily impressed and it's a great ego boost for the authors. Hope this is of some help to some of you at least. Regards, Gerry www.gerryobrien.ca
"Bubba Begonia, You'll Be Sorry!" Acorn Press PEI, 2006
Received on Tue 26 Sep 2006 06:22:48 PM CDT
