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![Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization in Writing Workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1898_0.jpg?h=ff41a28d&itok=45yRFacH)
![Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1893_0.jpg?h=6f8e8448&itok=taOZqxFw)
![Sound and Sense in Children's Picturebooks](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/634_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=Q5xFoyck)
![Flip Book](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/930_0.jpg?h=51a0c963&itok=1r0-_0hN)
![Stapleless Book](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/957.jpg?h=73541a1f&itok=6jAQHJtx)
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
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This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.
![Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1913_0.jpg?h=f52e7eb6&itok=0G-91tWp)
![NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1060_0.jpg?h=ca1e76a3&itok=S41f_IIV)
Students conduct research and write original works of nonfiction on topics of their choice.
![Author Eve Bunting was born in Ireland in 1928.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1203_0.jpg?h=3100613b&itok=wUeBr81M)
Students listen to a news article about the LA race riots and then read Smoky Night to discuss how a younger observer might be affected by these events and their perceptions.
![Jane Yolen was born in 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1190_0.jpg?h=8a24db3c&itok=ZIoTJV3M)
![Roald Dahl was born on this day in 1916.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1053_0.jpg?h=b4441652&itok=W6BdcXJ4)
Students adapt a Roald Dahl story to picture book format and share their books and add them to the classroom library. Additionally, they compare a book version and film version of one of Dahl's works.
![Author Laura Joffe Numeroff was born in 1953.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1106.jpg?h=d2f60fb9&itok=P1cHXzdm)
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Readers of picture books and graphic novels know that visual images sometimes tell a story in a way that words cannot. Tune in to hear about newly-published middle grade and young adult fiction, graphic novels, biographies, travel memoirs, and informational books, all of which use visual material in ways that enrich the text's meaning.
!["Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers"](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/613_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=G8SfcYdy)
In this episode, you'll hear about creative retellings in a variety of genres and forms, including biographies, short story anthologies, verse novels, and picture books.
![Author of <em>Tuck Everlasting</em>, Natalie Babbitt, was born in 1932.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1074_0.jpg?h=825342f5&itok=eDz-MEo4)
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![Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/627_0.jpg?h=031b01a4&itok=vQOT7crX)
![In 1952, Paul Fleischman was born on this day.](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/1104_0.jpg?h=4e026002&itok=f7HwshhQ)
Some of Fleishman's memories in his essay "My House of Voices" are shared with the class. Students then write a descriptive essay that gives a tour of the voices in their homes, school, etc.