Picture Books

1. What are Picture Books? When can you use them? How? Are there any limitations?
Picture books are - Communicate information or tell stories through a series of many pictures combined with relatively slight texts or no text at all. It also states that the illustration (pictures) are just as important or even more important then the text. Picture books can satisfy a wide age range of readers. You can use picture books from infant-adult years. You can read the different types of nursery rhymes helps stimulate oral language development when they are infants,toddlers. The wordless picture books encourage children to find objects in pictures,tell their own story,and write creatively this for young children 6-18 age. Picture story books are great for reading aloud to the students. I don't believe there is no limitations on using picture books.

2. How do you evaluate or select picture books? What is the processes? There are four major factors on evaluating a picture books.

1. The child's age and stage of cognitive and social devloment.
2. The way in which an adult has or has not prepared the child for an experience with a picture book.
3. The child's emotional state of readiness.
4. The number of times the child looks at the illustrations.

Always make sure you have the books on same topic of what you are teaching for that week. If you are teaching about transportation,don't add a book about bears in there. The students might wonder what bears have to do with transportation. Always keep your students in mind when selecting your books.The relationship between the words and the pictures when evaluating a picture book.

3. What are my personal views on picture books? No,like and why? Use or no use? Why?

I believe that picture books are great way to learn how to read. It all start from Infant through adult. Also, picture books helps children with their writing ,thinking, oral communication and vocabulary. I know when I was growing up I used to love to read the "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Brown Bear" and "The Stinky Cheese Man". Those were some of my favorite growing up. I do like picture books, it makes the child wonder what is going to happen next of the story. Yes, I would use picture books in my classroom. You as a teacher can do a lot of activites from picture books,for example: when we work in our home groups we chose 3 different picture books and how we could incorpate these books into activties. There are web activties, cause and effect and sequenced. " Ellas of Course we used web activity and " Some Pig" we used cause and effect and "My Aparon" we did sequence. I believe it makes a child start think of what happened in the story that they had just read or the teacher had read to them.