Traditional Literature
A type of folk tale typically starring animals that ends with a moral or lesson
What is a fable?
This form of Japanese poetry consisting of 3 lines of 5-7-5 syllables
What is a haiku?
This award is given to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children
What is the Caldecott Medal?
Echo reading, choral reading, Readers Theater, sight words are a few classroom strategies used to support and improve this pillar
What is fluency?
Writing that is about facts, real people, & events
What is nonfiction?
This is the most famous fairy tale of all time
What is Cinderella?
This children's poet won a Grammy for "A Boy Named Sue"
Who is Shel Silverstein?
This award is named after the first Latina librarian of the New York Public Library, awarded to a Latina/Latino write & illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, & celebrates the Latino cultural experience in children's literature
What is the Pura Belpre Award?
Activating background knowledge, questioning, inferring, visualizing, summarizing all support this pillar
What is comprehension?
This genre contains at least one element that would not be possible in the real world
What is fantasy?
Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Mike Fink are all characters of this type of story, often told on the American frontier to give courage to early American settlers
What is a tall tale?
A poem that consists of words cut out from multiple sources or from a single passage with specific words marked out to create a new poem
What is a found poem?
This award is given to the author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child & adolescent audiences
What is the Schneider Family Book Award?
A word map might be helpful to use with students to support this pillar
What is vocabulary?
A realistic story set in the past; may be based on real people or historical events but is fiction
What is historical fiction?
What are nursery rhymes?
Literacy technique where a group of students reads aloud a selected passage, often a poem
What is choral reading?
This author & illustrator has an award named after him, given to the most distinguished American book for beginning readers
Who is Theodore Seuss Geisel?
Focus on the relationship between sounds & the letters that represent them
What is phonics?
This genre includes literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings & ideas by the use of distinctive style & rhythm
This "Father of Fairy Tales" told stories to entertain & train the young ladies on Louis XIV court
Who is Charles Perrault?
"Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout" is an example of a poet using this repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a word and in close proximity
What is alliteration?
This award is given to the most distinguished informational book
What is the Sibert Book Award?
The smallest units of sound in a language, English has about 44 of them
What are phonemes?
This genre is made up of stories passed down from generation to generation without a known author
What is traditional literature?