Friday, February 20, 2015

Wiesner, David. (1991). Tuesday. New York: Clarion Books.

This Caldecott award-winning book is a twist compared to other popular children's picture books. This is a story with little text. There are a total of only 6 words in the entire story starting on the first page, "Tuesday evening, around eight," later in the story, "at 4:38a.m," and on the last page, "next Tuesday." The uniqueness of this book intrigued me. As I went through the story, even without text, I felt more involved in the story than I typically would for a picture book. From the beginning, the frogs in the story go on a journey from their pond homeland to the city and neighborhoods, in which they observe new scenes. At one point they almost get caught by a dog, but the dogs ends up joining them on their journey. The frogs go back home, but they left traces of themselves throughout the town. At the end of the story, it seems to be suggesting that the next adventure will belong to the pigs.
I thought this book would be great to use for young, emergent readers because invented storytelling could take place. Imaginations could run wild while reading this book because of the freedom of no text. Young students could perform a read aloud in which they read the story using their own words based off of the pictures.
I thought a good activity for older students would be to write text for the illustrations of the story.
Another option would be to have students writ a continuation of the story using their predictions of what they think the pigs' journey would be.

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