History
This is an award given to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
What is Caldecott?
This is the time and place a story unfolds.
What is setting?
Appeal to all ages, typically 32 to 48 pages in length, appear in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Draws the reader into the story as both words and pictures contribute to the meaning.
What is a picture book?
Japanese verse that typically uses nature as a theme and follows a pattern of 3 lines and 17 syllables.
What is Haiku?
This is an activity used after reading text to assess students thoughts and comprehension.
What is a reading response?
traditional knowledge or beliefs which usually passed down by word of mouth
What is Folklore?
A sequence of actions and reactions that are carefully chosen to tell the tale best.
What is Plot?
The illustrations tell the story and stimulate creative thinking, enhance visual literacy, and allow children with different backgrounds and reading abilities to share the same book. There are no words.
What is a wordless picture book?
Made popular by Edward Lear, these are short nonsense verses that follow a five line pattern.
The 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines rhyme
What is limericks?
This is an activity where a small group of children gather together to discuss a piece of literature in depth.The discussion is guided by the students.
What is a Literature Circle?
During the Puritan Era, in England and America books for children were influenced by these Puritan ideas:
-fear of God
-religious instruction
-preparation for death
A writers choice and arrangement of words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs.
What is style?
These are typically short, intended to teach tales that have a moral to the story. Character are often animals
What are Fables?
These lengthier poems must tell a story complete with familiar literary elements.
What is narrative?
The title, the title page, the table of contents, the index, the glossary and the heading. This is text that is not part of the main body of work. They are typically found I nonfiction texts to provide supplemental information.
What are text features?
He was called “Father of Children's Literature” for he conceived the idea of publishing books for the enjoyment and entertainment of children.
Who is John Newbury?
Character against self, character against nature, character against character, character against society.
What is conflict?
These tales are about wonder and magic and may involve magical objects. The oppressed outwit wicked adversaries to live happily ever after.
What is a fairy tale?
Poets use the shape of the words on the page to underscore the meaning or idea of the poem.
What is concrete?
Authors of nonfiction text organize their writing in a way that is helpful to their readers. The way they choose to organize the text is called this.
What is text structure?
This is a collection of books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written particularly for readers from infancy to age 14.
What is Childre's Literature?
This is the idea or central meaning of a story.
What is the theme?
The main purpose for this genre of books is to inform the reader.
What is Non fiction?
This is a group of lines in poetry that gives poems structure.
What are stanzas?
These are all charactistics of this type of literature.
mythic origins
paranormality
exotic locales.
What is modern fantasy?