Short description: Pairing picture books and creating text sets extends strategic reasoning, expands creative thinking, and exposes students to advanced inferential connections within and between texts. This session explains book physicality, examines illustrative style, and looks at narrative text structures that challenge students’ convergent and divergent thinking skills to pair books together.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Understand the nuances and advanced features of children's pictures books
Understand how convergent and divergent thinking, as well as creative and critical interaction with illustrations and text, are advanced features to develop literary analysis and book pairings
Gain the tools to help advanced learners develop comprehension not only of a singular text but the deeper meaning behind book pairs