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Friday, August 29, 2008

Sensory imagery

Polar Bear, Polar Bear What do you hear? By Bill Martin

With each picture- can you hear the animal? Where might the animal be if it was in the picture?

Gathering the Sun by Alma Flor Ada

Poetry imagery for fruits/places

Water Hole Waiting by Jane and Christopher Kurtz

Phrasing evoking imagery – Sun cartwheels slowly up the sky

Dangers for monkey evoking imagery – stay away from hippo’s yawning jaws.

I didn’t understand the danger when I tried to make a mental image I could hear how loud it was and I knew why she pulled the monkey’s ear.

One Hot Summer Day – by Nina Crews

Things to do when you are hot.

Yum! Mmm! Que Rio by Pat Flora

Short poetry with imagery of foods

Not a Box by Porter

What rabbit is imaging is in red

Books on dinosaurs – scientists have to use visual imagery to get the picture

Moon Jumpers by Janice May Urdry Sounds sights of a summer night

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Grades 2-4

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
Tales of all the things that distract Moxy from reading her required reading of Stuart Little.
Author's Style: Conversational tone, SHORT chapters. Each chapter makes many jumps from narrator speaking to narrator narrating.