Using the expressive paintings by Laura Dronzek, award winning author Kevin Henkes tells of the long days of winter using descriptive, child-friendly, repetitive language in a book that will soon become everyone’s favorite read aloud. Snow Dude, by Daniel Kirk ...
Imagery is vivid and descriptive language that paints wonderful pictures in the reader’s mind as it evokes the senses. Obviously, imagery utilizes adjectives, adverbs and rich words well. An example: “The aroma of freshly brewed hot chocolate filled the room making everyone feel warm and cozy....
Misty plopped down on the comfortable couch, but it was difficult for her to relax when the room was a disaster area-toys and shoes and books and dishes were strewn about. Notice that literal descriptive language is mainly used in these examples. However, in the last example, figurative lang...
of pictures and words,the majority of whose readers are children.The implicit and vivid words together with expressive and descriptive pictures bring the fun of discovery and expectation of exploration.We should be child-oriented and help them to develop themselves in reading picture books.关键...
Deborah Diesen and illustrated by Lucy Fleming. This sweet celebration of fall follows a young girl and her grandfather as they take a walk and notice the signs of fall. The colorful illustrations and descriptive language highlight the fall season, as well as the magical times spent with loved...
Often I receive lengthy text pages that authors believe should be a picture book, or short manuscripts that they insist are chapter books! In addition to the unusual word count, the language used is often inappropriate for the targeted age group. In fact, it happens so frequently that I felt...
However, students taught with CD-ROM picture books acquired middle-level or high-level descriptive concepts and used scientific terms to present ideas. CD-ROM picture books designed in this pattern can attract students' interest in their classes; therefore, we suggest primary school teachers use ...
Wordless picture books can jumpstart descriptive writing sessions in your class. If you have students who struggle to create ideas for their writing, the basic frame is already done. With the plot, setting, and characters already created, they can fill in the blanks with beautiful language and ...
He is married with two grown-up children. Previous to Shakespeare Comic Books, he wrote a series of books on grammar and punctuation for Harper Collins and English as a Foreign Language titles for Orient Press. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. 目录: ...
The impact of picture books and letter frequencies on the development of children's letter knowledge is not well understood. Previous research has demonstrated that the letter frequencies in language (Pollo et al., 2009), the number of picture books in the home (Hamilton et al., 2016), and...