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This document discusses criteria for informational books, summarizing several books. It provides criteria like accuracy, organization, design, and style. For example, it notes that Balloons Over Broadway provides a bibliography and sources page to ensure accuracy. How They Croaked includes a table of contents to help readers find specific information. Spiders uses excellent full-color photos that attract young readers while also providing information. Me...Jane and Rosa both use a picture book style to grab young readers' attention while informing them about Jane Goodall and Rosa Parks.
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Assignment 3
This document provides summaries of 7 novels focusing on their characters, plots, settings, themes, and styles. For Bridge to Terabithia, the characters are believable and relatable to children. The plot engages readers from the start and has an unexpected tragedy. Out of My Mind has a realistic school setting that is important to the theme of not judging others. Rules shows how settings and a character's growth reveal the theme. A Crooked Kind of Perfect demonstrates the author's unique style and relatable main character. Dear Mr. Henshaw is written through letters and a diary in first person. Timmy Failure has a unique style using drawings and incorporates humor.
Assignment 1
The document summarizes how various children's books use different visual elements like line, texture, shape, and color in their illustrations. It provides examples from books like "Olivia", "Where the Wild Things Are", and "This is Not My Hat" to show how elements like line depict walls and frowns or how texture makes water and fur look realistic. It then discusses criteria like character, plot, setting, and theme and gives examples of how books demonstrate these through their illustrations.
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Assignment 2
- 2. This book provides accuracy by listing a bibliography and sources page. The reader can be confident that the information is accurate. Accuracy Balloons Over Broadway
- 3. How They Croaked provides a table of contents to the reader. It makes it easier for the reader to look for the information it wants to read on instead of reading the entire book. Organization How They Croaked
- 4. We Are the Ship provides a bibliography page located on pg. 83. By providing this page for reference it lets the reader know that all the information in the book is accurate. Accuracy We Are the Ship
- 5. Bishop in the book Spiders includes excellent use of photos in full color that attract young children to read it and at the same time provides information about spiders. Design Spiders
- 6. In the book Me…Jane the author used a picture book to write a nonfiction story about Jane Goodall. Her style of writing grabbed the young readers attention through the life of young Jane and her toy chimpanzee. Style Me…Jane
- 7. Giovanni uses a picture book to inform young readers about Rosa Parks, an African American that stood up for her rights. Although it is a picture book the author used appropriate vocabulary. This type of style is not only enjoyable for the reader but also is a great tool for research. Rosa Style
- 8. Primates unique style is a great way to enjoy an informational book. The author wrote it like a comic book to make it interesting to read instead of a book with pages and pages of written information. Style Primates
- 9. It’s So Amazing is written in a unique comic book style. Not only does it contain illustrations but also diagrams. Young children will be able to get answers to any question they might have about our reproductive system. Style It’s So Amazing