Monday 4 November 2013

Critical Literacy with "The Three Bears (Sort Of)" by Yvonne Morrison

This has to be one of my favourite new picture books and I thank Margaret for letting me know about it.  Click on the cover of the book to read a review.  This is an excellent picture book for critical literacy.  It also has a lovely twist in the ending, so would make a terrific mentor text for writing.

The narrator begins reading the story of "The Three Bears" and is constantly interrupted with questions that challenge the accuracy of the traditional tale.  I created a resource to support critical reflection on the text.  You can preview it by clicking on the image on the right.


http://www.scholastic.co.nz/publishing/assets/pdf/NewFor/Three%20Bears%20(sort%20of).pdf  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Critical-Literacy-The-Three-Bears-Sort-Of-867053

 This title would work well as a companion text with "Interrupting Chicken" or "Again".

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/interrupting-chicken  http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Emily-Gravett/35393029

Other texts that could work in well with a critical approach to fairy tales, include "No Bears" and "Bad Boys".  Free teacher notes and activities are available from the publisher's website for "No Bears" - just click on the image below.

http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Books/No-Bears-9781921529924   

 Both "The Three Bears (Sort Of)" and "No Bears" are new releases for 2013.  You can read a review of "No Bears" here.  It's a terrific picture book for exploring how illustrations add meaning to a text and intertextuality with the various fairytale characters  depicted in the illustrations throughout the story.  It would also be a useful text for teaching inferring - who really did save the princess?

"Bad Boys" is also a good text for exploring intertextuality and also for teaching idioms and alliteration.  I like to use text sets as it helps model how to make "text-to-text connections".

Have a terrific week everyone - and don't forget the blog hop this weekend. 

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7 comments :

  1. Thanks Carla - I am totally and utterly obsessed with picture books :)
    Kylie

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  2. OMG!!! A million thanks for tipping me off to "The Three Bears (Sort Of)". I am in lve with it and your blig has given me a gazillion ideas for its use in my Year 5 class! (And can you tell I enjoy hyperbole?!?)

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  3. Blog, not "blig"! I cannot wait to use this book in class. Again, many thanks!

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  4. I am so pleased Joy - I don't know why an author didn't think about interrogating fairy tales in a similar way earlier - I wonder if kids have been thinking these things for years? I hope you have fun with it and can't wait to see what you do with it! I'd love to add some photos to my blog post - thanks again for the photos you sent me for my Reciprocal Teaching blog post :)
    Kylie

    hy·per·bo·le (hī-pûr′bə-lē) n. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

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  6. Here's one for you Joy :)
    http://www.pinterest.com/pin/377880224956123964/
    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au/

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