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Friday, January 27, 2012

Chalk


Book Title: Chalk
Author(s): Bill Thomson
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Bill Thomson
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children
Copyright Date: 2010
Genre: Wordless picturebook, fiction
Brief Annotation: Chalk is a wordless picture book about three children who visit a park on a rainy day. They find a bag of chalk and draw pictures that come to life.
Your Rating (1-5) and why: (3): I love the format of this book, especially for younger children. However, the story was pretty short and only had three main events (chalk drawings), which made it difficult to talk about and encourage story elaboration from students.
Readers who will like this book: Readers who will like this book are children with active, vivid imaginations who love to engage in dramatic play or storytelling. They enjoy talking and sharing during read-alouds.
Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :
Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: (from the back cover) What’s in that girl’s bag? (chalk) What do you think she might draw with that chalk?
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