Our last week in January

Our firsties enjoyed 4 different Pigeon books this week.  Here they are:

We worked with the students on looking at all different text features that help the author/illustrator tell the story more effectively.  Here are some of the examples that we looked at:

underlined text for emphasis

 

 

the use of all capital letters for emphasis

We also discussed other ways that authors give us information through diagrams, descriptive illustrations, maps, and many other ways.  Here are some examples that we showed:

The use of many panels on a page.  The expressions of the pigeon.

We learned how to read a life cycle diagram.

Check out some other activities we did with the Pigeon this week.

We will be continuing our study of the author/illustrator Mo Willems in the upcoming week.

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Hutchison