The document provides guidance on creating picture books. It advises the reader to carefully review criteria, expose themselves to different types of stories to understand various structures, styles, purposes and audiences. When creating a picture book, the author should consider who the audience is, the purpose, criteria that must be fulfilled, and how to encourage visual literacy. Key elements to look for include context, characters, plot development, how pages and events are linked, and language and image selection to be understood by all readers. The document prompts examining three images and considering what story they might tell or what additional story could be added.
2. How to begin โฆ
โข Read your criteria sheet carefully
โข Expose yourself to several different types
of stories:
ยป Different structures
ยป Different styles
ยป Different purposes
ยป Different audiences
ยป Different responses
3. What to remember โฆ
โข Who is my audience?
โข What is my purpose?
โข What criteria do I have to fulfill?
โข How do I encourage โvisual literacyโ?
4. What to look for โฆ
โข Context
โข Time and place
โข Character
โข Those involved (plus the reader)
โข Plot development
โข How the events (and pages) link together
โข Language and image selection
โข Being understood by all readers
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27. โข Look closely at these three images
โข What story might they tell?
โข What story could you add?
