Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Not just for kids.
If you look carefully, you can use picture books to emphasize a concept. Most high school students, I have found can relate to the book if you present it properly. It would also be a learning experience for students to create their own picture books. I have done this in the past and some of the books were fantastic. Just show them a large variety of books, or they could do an alphabet picture book. Hope this helps.
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I like to use "Erika's Story" when teaching about the Holocaust. It is a great story with beautiful illustrations.
Another book that I really like is "The Other Side" by Jacqueline Woodson. I haven't found an opportunity to use "The Other Side" in my class; however, if you need a book to open discussion about segregation throughout history you could examine the choices the illustrator made in his interpretation!
The same illustrator, E.B. Lewis, did the pictures for "Circle Unbroken" by Margot Theis Raven.
Finally, for history related picture books, "Rosa" by Nikki Giovanni is great! It is illustrated by Bryan Collier using watercolor and collage. Beautiful!!!!
With picture books, one of our students in the FL department brought a box of books for us to use in our classes. They are all in Spanish, so of course we were grateful for the free books! In this set of books I made an interesting discovery...Scholastic books makes a set of books in Spanish that uses pictures to represent vocabulary. In example, phrases students may not learn in Spanish I or II are written out then in replace of common vocabulary there are pictures. So the students are required to recall that vocabulary in reading the book. Sometimes the phrases are newer phrases we just learned and then the pictures make students recall previously learned vocab. It was a lot of fun for the students, and it almost turned into a competition to see who could remember the word fastest!
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