Teachers and parents, use picture books as mentor texts to teach perspective. Stories like these help you model for your students and children that our perspectives and the perspectives of different characters, including the narrator, is how we see the world and the events in it. It's easy to call this point of view but from a literary standpoint, perspective is a bit different. Point … [Read more...]
Picture Books for Teaching Personification
When writers give human qualities to an object or animal, it's called personification. It's delightful to read and very fun to use in your own writing. Use these picture books as mentor texts to teach the concept of personification. If you're a teacher, these are perfect for writing workshop. They'll most definitely be a way to inspire kids' own personification stories. Read one of … [Read more...]
Picture Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
Use picture books as mentor texts to model for your elementary students how to write using sound words or onomatopoeia. These books show your young writers the possibilities for incorporating the sense of sound into stories and poems. Picture Books To Teach Onomatopoeia Dig, Dump, Roll by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Lovelock VEHICLES A noisy world of construction that begs to be … [Read more...]
New and Favorite Poetry Books for Children
It's April. Happy Poetry Month! It's time to get kids interested in reading and writing poetry with poetry books. Kids gravitate towards funny, rhyming poetry which is a place to get them hooked. But, I don't like using rhyming poetry with kids too much or their writing becomes only rhyming. (Which usually stinks and makes no sense.) The best way to get your kids engaged in poetry is … [Read more...]