{"id":3272,"date":"2016-10-21T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:48:58","slug":"finding-the-perfect-picture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2016\/10\/21\/finding-the-perfect-picture-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Perfect Picture Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I attended the Oregon State Conference for School Libraries at Summit High School. It was a great conference and I gleaned many new ideas. Fortunately, I was able to attend a session by author, Miranda Paul, who used to be a high school English teacher. She mentioned the power of using picture books at any level (high school included) to teach certain concepts. \"not-my-hat\"For example, she used\u00a0This is Not my Hat\u00a0<\/em>by Jon Klassen to teach the concept of dramatic irony. By the end of that 3-minute book, her students were able to grasp the concept and not a single one of them got the term wrong on the test!\u00a0The point is that we need\u00a0to engage our students in such a way that learning is fun, contagious and sticks. Here are more of Miranda’s recommendations for teaching vocabulary, literary devices or content:<\/p>\n