Reading Picture Books With Children

Posted on 11 February 2017 by Megan Dowd Lambert

A new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert s graduate work in children s literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime and getting kids to think with their eyes Traditional storytime often offers a passive experience for kids, but the Whole Book approach asks the youngest of readers to ponder all aspects of a picture book and to use their critical thinking skills Using classic examples, Megan asks kids to think about why the trim size of Ludwig Bemelman s Madeline is so generous, or why the typeset in David Wiesner s Caldecott winner, The Three Pigs, appears to twist around the page, or why books like Chris Van Allsburg s The Polar Express and Eric Carle s The Very Hungry Caterpillar are printed landscape instead of portrait The dynamic discussions that result from this shared reading style range from the profound to the hilarious and will inspire adults to make children s responses to text, art, and design an essential part of storytime. Read Reading Picture Books With Children – kino-fada.fr I love reading and I love reading with children so this book was a natural choice for me.While reading it I found both things that were familiar and things that were not I ve shared wordless books with children, specifically to draw them out and get them to tell me the story And I ve gone over the parts of the book on a mega level Which is to say that I ve pointed out the elements of the title page, the page numbers, table of contents and index and that sort of thing What I never thought t I love reading and I love reading with children so this book was a natural choice for me.While reading it I found both things that were familiar and things that were not I ve shared wordless books with children, specifically to draw them out and get them to tell me the story And ...Not all professional books about reading and reading with children are easy to read Much to the theme of the book, this book feelslike a conversation than a professional lecture Previously, there were times in my storytime where I ask kids about what they think might happen next based on the picture and other interactive questions but after or really during reading this I began to slow downand try to point out specific design and illustration choices and ask kids questions let Not all professional books about reading and reading with children are easy to read Much to the theme of the book, this book feelslike a conversation than a professional lecture Previously, there were times in my storytime where I ask kids about what they think might happen next based on the picture and other interactive questions but after or really during reading this I began to slow downand try to point out specific design and illustration choices and ask kids questions let them have room to speak I m still working on how to beof a facilitator and less pointing out what I think they should notice, if that makes sense I have noticed that some of myunruly kids areengaged I ve noticed that a 30 minute storytime can easily become a 45 minut...Six stars please Reading aloud can absolutely be an inquiry based learning experience.Need to find the right wording possible upper arm tattoo HmmmAspects I liked about this book Lambert spends time discussing aspects of art, text, subject, and layout of picture books and ways to engage children in story time The book is laid out like a picture book, with illustrations, glossy pages, and easy to read text These design elements draw the reader into the book, and complement its topic Aspects I really didn t like about the book Lambert has created a new vs old paradigm of picture book reading that is very exaggerated She implies that n Aspects I liked about this book Lambert spends time discussing aspects of art, text, subject, and layout ...Required reading for anyone who reads picturebooks with children and those who read picturebooks with themselves, too An incredible resource for teachers, librarians, and booksellers to reinvigorate how they see picturebooks and those books intended audiences.Lambert focuses on how to encourage the child reader to share their thoughts by providing them with a toolkit about how to look at and think about a picturebook as a whole art object, from cover to cover and everything in between She als Required reading for anyone who reads...I m on the fence I love the concept of making storytime less of a performance andof a conversation joint exploration And I really love focusing on building and nurturing a relationship between kids and books, not to earn points or take tests but to have fun Anyone who knows me knows exactly how I feel about AR spoiler it s the literal worst I guess I m just not sure that talking to preschoolers about endpapers is the way I want to go I mostly do toddler storytimes so I m also not I m on the fence I love the concept of...This book is a quick read with many surprises about reading picture books with children and teaching them about the parts of the book that interact with the illustrations to help tell the story on a child s level Adults readers may b...I appreciated this read muchthan Supercharged Storytime This offers realistic instead of overwhelming teaching methods in a way that makes them not seem like teaching methods but just an insightful way to share a picture bo...This book opened my mind to a new way of thinking about sharing picture books with children While I have problems getting this to work in my storytime it certainly has caused me to call attention to the art work and to remember to value the comments and ideas of children.All my librarian friends should read this book I learned a lot

11 February 2017

Megan Dowd Lambert