Wordless Picture Book - Flotsam

GRADE:

5th

CLASS /UNIT:

Wordless Picture Book

MONTH/YEAR:

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How do illustrations tell the story?

TIME NEEDED:

45

MATERIALS:

Flotsam by David Weisner, divide book into 4 parts and make copies of each part for a student group, notebook paper and pencils for each groups

SCOS:

Information Skills:

5.IN.1 Differentiate strategies when reading informational text in a

variety of formats (e.g., print, online, audio, etc.) to complete

assigned tasks.

Content Skills:

5.RL.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

PROCEDURE:

Activation:

When a book has no words how do you “read” it?

Teaching:

Explain or review the term wordless picture books.  Divide students into manageable groups and give them one of the copy sets from the book with paper and pencils.  Explain that as a group they will organize the sequence of events and write what happened within those pages based on their sequencing. “Read” Flotsam after student share.

Practice:

Distribute materials and let students work for 15-20 minutes.  Then have students share based on beginning, middle and end.  Discuss how their versions differed from Flotsam.

Summary:

Refer back to the importance of illustrations to “read” books when you are looking at the cover to determine if it is a just right book for you and to make sense of a story when you are reading.

Exit Card:

Have them tell me what the illustrations inside and outside of the book they checked out today made them want to read.

EVALUATION NOTES:

Could each student give me an answer?