What's Your Favorite Picture Book?

• With end-of-the-year state testing quickly approaching, many upper grade teachers are using picture books to review Communication Arts skills, and they have requested names of books to use.


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Some of my favorite books are:


Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey

• Beginning, middle, end


• Alliteration (in newspaper pictures)


• Foreshadowing (notice signs of burglars throughout)


• Plot

If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz

Predicting

Lighthouse: A Story of Remembrance by Robert Munsch

Infer/Draw conclusions (What happened to Grandpa?)

Questioning: I wonder ... (I wonder why she put a flower in her hair.)

Warning: The Lighthouse book is sad and may make you cry.

Chewy Louie by Howie Schneider

Summarizing

Powerpoint lesson posted @: http://cherylsclassroomtipsdi.blogspot.com/search?q=summarizing

Duke Ellington by Andrea David Pinkney

• A plethora of figurative language included
• Nonfiction
• Beginning, middle, end

Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino

• Beginning, middle, end (plot)
• Strong verbs (author mainly put said to bed)

Yours Truly, Goldilocks by Alma Flor Ada

• Friendly letter format
• Excellent word choice

The Weighty Word Book by Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger and Elissa S. Guralnick

• Vocabulary in story format

I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track by Joshua Prince

• Onomatopoeia

Please consider posting your favorite picture books for other teachers to use or e-mail me at cdick@mail.nixa.k12.mo.us, and I'll post them for you. Most of the above mentioned books are recommendations given to me by other teachers.