Picture Books For Reading And Writing (List #1)
This is a list of picture books (including sophisticated picture books) that I use to motivate and engage Year 1-10 students in reading and writing.
A second list is also available here
For reading, I use them as ‘read to’ books and sometimes as models of what good writers can do.
For writing, I use them to establish writing ideas and content for and with students.
You may wish to review the Murray Talks videos for teacher guidance and the Video Lessons for some ‘follow along’ content.
Picture Books For Reading And Writing (List #2)
This is the second list of picture books (including sophisticated picture books) that I use to motivate and engage Year 1-10 students in reading and writing.
The first list is available here, also as a free download.
For reading, I use them as ‘read to’ books and sometimes as models of what good writers can do.
For writing, I use them to establish writing ideas and content for and with students.
You may wish to review the Murray Talks videos for teacher guidance and the Video Lessons for some ‘follow along’ content.
Picture Books For Reading And Writing (List #3)
It is three years since I put together (with the help of several school librarians) my update of suggested picture books for reading and writing. Now it’s time for another update. All of the lists are available here as free downloads. Just sign in and download at no cost.
The following list of books (some new; some old) are the main ones that I have come across and/or having been using in my reading and writing programmes over the past three years. Some are recommended for particular age groups, and some (as you will see at the end) have been used as the subject of Video Lessons I have included in my on-line subscription resource.
Have fun reading these books and sharing them with your students, and good luck with coming up writing ideas that might go with them. Remember, in most cases it will not be a matter of just re-telling the stories in writing time; it will be more a matter of taking the main themes or ideas in the book and getting students to apply them to their own lives and experiences. Look at how I do this in any of my lessons.