1. Picture Prompt: Respond to this picture prompt with a poem, story, description, explanation, commentary, or whatever you wish. Label it, and add today's date. Write at least a half page.
Picture Prompts -- Children's Books?
Don't forget to bring a children's book.
2. Book share
3. What makes for the best books for children?
perspective
how they think
pictures
title
seems less scary (helps them deal with fears)
strange format (humorous) jokes twisted familiar stories
all pictures -- entertaining, fun
inanimate objects turned into "people" = "personification"
hyperbole = exaggeration
imagination. hyperbole (not as it really is, but as how a child might imagine it)
becomes a game -- such as guessing
learning
alphabet
lyrical-- Ray Bradbury
rhyming, easy, short
just right words!
design
colorful
unique to the child
points out the uniqueness of the child
easy words -- but hard ones to learn, too
suspense
dealing with bad things happening
far out -- weird
bears repeating
wants to see what's coming next
the familiar
repeating refrain
teaches a lesson -- a moral
humor -- puns
rhyming
familiar situations -- changed
unexpected
temporarily misleading
part of a series
If extra time, read more Love That Dog.
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