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by David Wiesner
Lesson plans and teaching resources
Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
In this multisession lesson designed for struggling readers, students are guided through a viewing of David Wiesner's
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, a wordless picture book. As students view the images, they are asked four different types of questions about the pictures. The questions range in difficulty from those with answers that can be found in the text to those that require inferences. Students learn to categorize questions by the four question types and use pictures to help them better understand a story.
Fun-Loving Frogs
During this lesson students will use their imaginations and writing skills to write a story from a wordless picture book,
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, by David Wiesner. They will work in pairs and write text to go along with the pictures. They will also view a website to learn facts about frogs.
A Picture is Worth … A Thousand Different Stories: Using Visual Media to Engage the Imagination and Enhance Skills for Analyzing and Synthesizing Information
This extensive unit includes uses
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by David Weisner to teach drawing inferences in Lesson Plan Three.
Picture This!
Working with partners, students use sticky notes as they write stories to accompany picture books. This activity will work with many picture books.
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by David Wiesner
A review and suggestions for learning activities.
Weird Animal Adventures
Inspired by the wordless animal adventures found on the pages of David Wiesner's
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, student writers will plan an original story about a group of animals weird adventure that happens after dark. Unlike Wiesner's text, student stories will be built from words that focus on interesting details. Before drafting, each student will plan the story's beginning, middle, and end. This lesson focuses on organization and idea development.