Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580896626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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She writes about books and parenting for the Horn Book Magazine, has sat on a Caldecott Committee, and worked at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for many years before writing A CROW OF HIS OWN, her first picture book.. Megan Dowd Lambert is an instructor at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, where she previously earned her master's degree in children's literature
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 an
"Do NOT buy the Kindle version!!" according to Tonya Kneller. Kindle version is awful! The print is tiny and cannot be enlarged. Waste of money!! Buy the booki wish I could get my money back, so I don't have to pay twice. I will need a magnifying glass to read this version!! Disappointing. Best material source for the children's educational professional. Without a doubt a must have for any educational professionals working with children's literature.Librarians, teachers, and Moms will all benefit from this reading experience.. An Interesting Book With Wide Appeal For a committed academic I guess this book could qualify as a technical monograph. For a student of early childhood education or children's literature or maybe library science I could see this book being required reading on almost any syllabus. But the best part is that for the enthusiast, parent, home schooler, or just general reader this book is loaded with thought provoking ideas about what books are and how they could be or should be introduced to early readers. I'm in the latter
Chapters include overviews of trim size, jackets and covers, endpapers, front matter, typography, page design, and perhaps most helpfully, a guide to encouraging visual intelligence among children and the benefits of her approach. As she points out, the Whole Book Approach method of sharing picture books starts right on the title page—adults share vocabulary information about the various parts of a physical book. Resources includes tips on creating and leading Whole Book storytimes, sample questions for Whole Book storytimes, a glossary and further reading.-The Bulletin of The Center for Children's Books Lambert’s Whole Book Approach challenges librarians to think differently about how they share a picture book in a group setting. Traditionalists' concerns that the integrity of the story might be compromised by many interruptions are unfounded; Lambert rightly stresses