Wordless picture books are a great way to promote literacy for a variety of audiences. ELLs and emerging bilinguals can use them to develop vocabulary and use the language that they know. They can also be used for emergent readers to get them to develop a deep understanding of story structure and tell the story in their own words. Wordless… Read More
Picture this: You have the most well-thought out lesson plan for your read aloud complete with questions that are designed to get your students talking and sentence frames to help your students answer your discussion question. You read the book and then try to get start your discussion and…CRICKETS. It’s happened to me MANY times. The one type of book… Read More
