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.

 

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

 

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.

   

 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".

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