Whether you reread it once or every night at bedtime, there’s always a new direction for a wordless picture book to take. Encouraging kids to think of new possibilities and reinterpret the story in different ways is a fun way to get them excited about reading. And revving up their imagina...
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But wordless picture books aren’t just for preschoolers! These versatile books can be especially enjoyable and useful for older kids. Because of their depth and complexity, wordless books can stimulate an older child’s thinking and imagination in ways that a chapter book may not....
There you have it, my very basic list of tips to help when approaching a wordless picture book. While many of them ring true for any picture book you read, I don’t think we naturally give the same amount of time and thought to wordless picture books as we do other books. They requi...
Students can retell the plot of a wordless picture book, challenging themselves to include the vocabulary they are studying. To make it more challenging, students could use vocabulary lists that don’t automatically pertain to the story. For example, students can see how many science terms they ...
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Tension fills the room andblack cloudslinger by the ceiling fan. Dinner was late, bills piled up, nobody called home. Now you’re steaming in front of the TV while they’re crying softly in the bedroom upstairs. The stalemate burns quietly until they come down, enter the room slowly, gr...
As promised, I will be showing pictures from part two of my big Hawaii trip. For the second part, we took the Norwegian Pride of America cruise through the Hawaiian Islands. We started out from Honolulu and went onwards to Kona, Hilo, Maui, and Kaui. My favorite is Kaui- such a bea...