Picture Books
Strategies
Literary Language
Morals, Lessons, and Themes
Main Characters
100
A group of children take a different route home and run into trouble
What is Shortcut by Donald Crews?
100
They help you know when to pause, stop, or exclaim when you read.
What are endmarks/punctuation marks?
100
Also known as sound words
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
Jabari jumping off the diving board in Jabari Jumps, even though he was terrified, shows us this theme
What is courage?
100
She wears Thinking Goggles on her head
Who is Zoey from Zoey and Sassafras?
200
She and Pa go owling in this book
What is Owl Moon by Jane Yolen?
200
Not reading too fast or too slow
What is Reading at a Just Right Pace?
200
A comparison using the words 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
200
The message Vashti learns in The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
What is believe in yourself?
200
He pretended to be a bag of wheat on his journey to find Wild Island
Who is My Father/Elmer Elevator?
300
Kitten thought the moon was a bowl of milk in this story
What is Kitten's First Full Moon
300
This helps you to read smoothly and not like a robot
What is to Scoop Words into Longer Phrases?
300
A comparison between two unlike things with one being stated as the other.
What is a Metaphor?
300
Mr. Plumbeam taught us how to do this
What is be creative and unique?
300
He shook his fist and yelled the same phrase over and over again
Who is Old Man Fookwire from Those Darn Squirrels?
400
This story is about family and togetherness
What is "Bigmamma's" by Donald Crews
400
Before judging a book by its cover, you should try this instead
What us Take a Sneak Peek?
400
An exaggeration
What is a Hyperbole?
400
The lesson Unhei in The Name Jar learned
What is be proud of who you are and where you come from?
400
He went on a snow day adventure in The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Who is Peter?
500
In this book, Alma Sofia Esperanza Candela finds out the story of her name
What is How Alma Got Her Name?
500
Dialogue Tags help you do this
What is Talk Like the Character?
500
The last sentence is an example of a non-literal phrased called this
What is an idiom?
500
The moral of A Chair for My Mother
What is when times are hard, generosity matters more than ever and can bring everyone together.
500
He had a tadpole that grew into a hippo
Who is Mr. Stricter?