This is awarded, each year, by the American Library Association and honors the artist of the most distinguished American picturebook.
What is the Caldecott Medal?
100
Some of the terms most commonly used in this genre include: alliteration, assonance, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition, simile.
What is poetry?
100
This author/illustrator creates many wordless books such as Flotsam and Tuesday.
Who is David Weisner?
100
Examples found in this genre include: The Watsons Go To Birmingham; Fever, 1793; Al Capone Does My Shirts; Breaking Stalin's Nose.
What is Historical Fiction?
100
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What is a KWL?
200
This book is given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators who show an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
What is the Coretta Scott King Award?
200
This genre consists of an imaginative narrative grounded in the facts of the past.
What is Historical Fiction?
200
This kind of literature is encouraged in the classroom since it illuminates similarities and differences in people around the world and thus educates readers about our unique situations and our common humanity.
What is Culturally Diverse Literature?
200
This genre is:
* Based on events in the life of the author
* Includes interpretive accounts in which the events are
selected and arranged in order to bring out a particular
theme or personality trait.
* Is an evocation of the subject's life, in the subject's
own words.
What is a Memoir?
200
When a picturebook's illustration is extended beyond or to the edge of the page.
What is full bleed?
300
This medal is presented each year, but the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
What is the Newbery Medal?
300
This genre comes from the oral tradition of nearly every culture and is passed down over many years, altered with each telling.
What is Folklore?
300
These three metaphors describe the way in which children's books might assist students in the world.
What are Mirrors, Windows, and Doors?
300
This is a type of poetry that includes 3 lines and 17 syllables.
What is Haiku?
300
These stories are a sub genre that represents a twist on the original story. Examples include:
* The true story of the three little pigs
* Princess Smarty Pants
* Paper Bag Princess
What are fractured fairy tales?
400
The Giverny Award is provided to the best picture books within this genre?
What is Science?
400
This genre is so ungrounded in facts that they are more fiction since there:
*are few or no sources
*is not distinction between what is fact and what is made
up
*Includes thoughts and conversations that we could not
know.
What is biographical fiction?
400
ALT stands for?
What is Academic Learning Time?
400
This is a sub genre of Folklore where the stories are simple form of myth that attempt to answer questions such as why
* does the ladybug have spots?
* the mosquito buzz?
* the sky is blue?
What is a pourquoi story?
400
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What is the Curriculum Lab?
500
The Mythopoeic Award goes to best books in this genre. Some of those books include The Hobbit and the Chronicles of Narnia.
What is Fantasy?
500
These two genres often consider the complexities of life, and reading from these can be a significant experience, building reader's values and beliefs. Readers may be led into an alternate reality through some object or through the belief of realistic characters in the fantasy setting or through the extrapolation of scientific possibilities into a future world.
What are Fantasy and Science Fiction?
500
A free technology Web 2.0 tool that can be used to store shared information and can be used to assist in student collaboration about a book where students build separate pages and can include a discussion board.
What is a wiki?
500
Qualities within this genre include:
* Setting that is realistic, whether actual or fictional
* Characters that are human beings we know:
multidimensional and dynamic
* Plots that contain realistic conflicts
* Theme that illuminates life
* Style that captivates and reflects contemporary
language patterns.
What is Contemporary Realistic Fiction
500
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