Using Picture Books with Older Students, Book 1

This refreshing collection of 60 follow-up ideas can be used with any book as either a whole group literature unit or as individual book reports. Activities allow students to analyze elements of good literature and present their own judgement. The activities are divided into reading logs and journals, analysis of setting, analysis of characters, analysis of plot and events, analysis of theme, general activities, personal involvement and judgement. Make this your teaching companion and incorporate thinking into your reading program. Bring the literary joy and visual delight of picture books into your intermediate or middle school classroom. Each book contains three units, each covering a different theme using four dynamic books. Designed to integrate literature, thinking skills and the creative arts, the units use Bloom's taxonomy and Gardner's seven intelligences to create activities that students will gladly complete. Study guides include high-level thinking questions, creative activities, and a reproducible worksheet. The unit is completed with thematic culminating activities and a bibliography of related books. Book 1 - Caring for the Earth (Great Kapok Tree, A River Ran Wild, City Green, Just a Dream), Bridges Across Generations (The Patchwork Quilt, The Old, Old Man and the Very Little Boy, Grandpa's Song, Sachiko Means Happiness), and Who are the Homeless? (Fly Away Home, A Rose for Abby, Space Travelers, Working Cotton). Grades 4-8.