"WOW" Page

“Wow” Page

A WOW page in a book is a page that gives you some kind of reaction or feeling. It can be a feeling, what you hoped would happen, or remind you of something else.

Students selected one or more wow pages from the classic they have read. They then used post tits to mark their wow pages and explained why and how does it influence their lives.

Creating Story Boards

Creating Story Boards

Storyboards are one of several tools recommended when working with students for whom the visual and the concrete are helpful elements in absorbing abstract ideas. Our authors have found that this technique is especially helpful in reading and writing instruction. Storyboarding, or picture writing, is the origin of all written languages, used by ancient cultures before text evolved and as a natural bridge to text. 

Our students were asked to extract the important scenes from the classic that they have read. Each picture will be followed by a caption.

POETRY ~ Genre

Celebrating Poetry

Poetry is one genre of children’s literature that both adults and children can receive equal benefit from. There are an endless number of hidden benefits in exposing children to a diverse selection of poetry at an early age. The mind of a child is the perfect place for poetry to grow. Children are all young poets; they just need help to realize their potential. Poetry for children is a way to access areas of their imagination and grow as critical thinkers, and poems should be a part of every child’s life. Poetry is a great vehicle for learning how complex thoughts, humorous ideas, deep emotions, or entire narratives can be expressed with a few carefully chosen words. Poetry is natural to children. They speak poetry themselves, unwittingly spilling out metaphors of the most surprising and engaging kind. Good poems do the same thing.

Autobiographical

Limerick

Couplet

Triplet

Quatrain

Cinquain

Diamante

Haiku