tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post2184054419934830203..comments2024-03-22T17:41:31.183+11:00Comments on Literacy, families and learning: Are Picture Books Dying?Trevor Cairneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post-70243783487439946232014-02-12T21:58:39.987+11:002014-02-12T21:58:39.987+11:00Hi Kim, thanks for your comments, they are much ap...Hi Kim, thanks for your comments, they are much appreciated. You sound like an innovative teacher who is doing some wonderful things in the classroom. So good to hear that you're using picture books in the middle school.Trevor Cairneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post-90462464056069193672014-02-12T06:23:44.492+11:002014-02-12T06:23:44.492+11:00What a wonderful post! As a middle school teacher ...What a wonderful post! As a middle school teacher I am a HUGE fan of using picture books in the classroom. Picture books are not just for young children. It is my philosophy that for a student to truly engage with a text they must make a connection on an emotional level. I believe that older children actually get more from the picture books than the younger ones. For example, how many elementary students wipe away tears as their teacher reads Eve Bunting’s The Wall? I ask because when I used this book with my social studies classes, I always had at least half of the class in tears before the end of the book. I think this was because, being older, my students were able to better understand the emotional component of the story and therefore, make a more personalized emotional connection to the story. I also have used The True Story of the Three Little Pigs with great success when teaching my students about perspective and point of view. I can look around the room at my students as I read and every single one of them is focused and paying rapt attention. At the end of the lesson, every single kid can tell me the differences from the book to the original childhood story. I use this lesson as a hook for their Retold Fairy Tale writing assignment. By using a picture book I am able to explain a complex idea such as perspective and how that impacts a story and have my students engaged while learning. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post-130292794140034712010-11-23T20:46:20.192+11:002010-11-23T20:46:20.192+11:00Thankyou, Trevor, I enjoyed this post immensely. ...Thankyou, Trevor, I enjoyed this post immensely. We have loved introducing our children to picture books, and we read the best ones over and over again. Neither we nor our children seem to tire of them, partly because there is so much more to them than the words. <br /><br />I am a fan of many of the wordless books around, too, such as those by Gregory Rogers and Mitsumasa Anno, as we can turn these into a different story every time we open them.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067103078292057363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post-82937039925434633942010-11-19T02:06:09.702+11:002010-11-19T02:06:09.702+11:00Hi Ali & Samax,
Glad you both liked the post....Hi Ali & Samax,<br /><br />Glad you both liked the post. Thanks for the link Ali.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />TrevorTrevor Cairneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post-69390665599745722102010-11-16T09:54:20.086+11:002010-11-16T09:54:20.086+11:00BRAVO!
As an illustrator, cartoonist, and father o...BRAVO!<br />As an illustrator, cartoonist, and father of a toddler, it's good to hear an educator say these things.Samaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17390821139505287622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200808769555430311.post-55865839994450048532010-11-16T08:52:00.151+11:002010-11-16T08:52:00.151+11:00Very thought-provoking. I hope you don't mind,...Very thought-provoking. I hope you don't mind, I have included a link to this article on my blog.Ali Pyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00569118183814383745noreply@blogger.com