Crash, Bang, Boom : Exploring Literary Devices Through Children's Literature

by Gibson, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781579500412
• ISBN10: 1579500412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Highsmith Inc

Summary

Make learning about literary devices exciting! Crash, Bang, Boom explores 11 reading skills and literary devices through 55 popular children's books. Each skill or device is introduced, explained and reinforced with five related picture books. The books include simple activities that reinforce the skill, discussion prompts that do not require a great deal of materials or preparation time and the multiple intelligences addressed in the lesson. The skills and devices covered in Crash, Bang, Boom are: onomatopoeia, alliteration, prediction, characterization, cause and effect, setting, simile, word study, inference and drawing conclusions, point of view and main idea. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Karen Gibson is serving as the Executive Director of Curriculum and Staff Development for the Pasadena Independent School District (Pasadena, Texas). She has also worked as an Instructional Specialist in Language Arts and as an elementary teacher in Houston and Pasadena. She has presented many staff development sessions designed to help teachers assist their students in preparing for state-mandated tests. Ms. Gibson has also taught children's literature at the University of Houston. She serves on the Advisory Council of the National Children's Literacy Project

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(1)
How to Use This Book	6	(1)
Getting the Big Picture
Titles for Teaching Main Idea	7	(6)
Oliver Button Is a Sissy	8	(1)
Tomie dePaola
Verdi	9	(1)
Janell Cannon
Thank You, Mr. Falker	10	(1)
Patricia Polacco
Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth	11	(1)
Robert Burleigh
The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants	12	(1)
Priscilla Turner
Where? When?
Titles for Teaching Setting	13	(8)
The Principal's New Clothes	14	(1)
Stephanie Calmenson
The Legend of the Bluebonnet	15	(2)
Tomie dePaola
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale From the American South	17	(1)
Robert D. San Souci
Cindy Ellen: A Wild West Cinderella	18	(2)
Susan Lowell
Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale	20	(1)
Steven Kellogg
It Happened Because...
Titles for Teaching Cause and Effect	21	(9)
If You Give a Pig a Pancake	22	(2)
Laura Joffe Numeroff
That's What You Get!	24	(1)
Rick Walton
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs	25	(2)
Judi Barrett
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash	27	(2)
Trinka Hakes Noble
The Rain Came Down	29	(1)
David Shannon
What Happens Next?
Titles for Teaching Prediction	30	(7)
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	31	(1)
Simms Taback
Suddenly	32	(1)
Colin McNaughton
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch	33	(2)
Eileen Spinelli
Chester the Worldly Pig	35	(1)
Bill Peet
Just a Dream	36	(1)
Chris Van Allsburg
I Think...
Titles for Teaching Inference and Drawing Conclusions	37	(7)
Miss Tizzy	38	(1)
Libba Moore Gray
The Story of Ruby Bridges	39	(2)
Robert Coles
The Art Lesson	41	(1)
Tomie dePaola
Tough Boris	42	(1)
Mem Fox
Yo! Yes?	43	(1)
Christopher Raschka
I See...You See...
Titles for Teaching Point of View	44	(6)
The Other Side	45	(1)
Jacqueline Woodson
The Greatest	46	(1)
Kenny Rogers
Don Schlitz
I Wish I Were a Butterfly	47	(1)
James Howe
Voices in the Park	48	(1)
Anthony Browne
Zoom	49	(1)
Istvan Banyai
How Are You Feeling?
Titles for Teaching Characterization	50	(6)
Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings	51	(1)
Ed Emberley
Anne Miranda
On Monday When It Rained	52	(1)
Cherryl Kachenmeister
How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods	53	(1)
Saxton Freymann
Joost Elffers
Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day	54	(1)
Jamie Lee Curtis
A to Z: Do You Ever Feel Like Me?	55	(1)
Bonnie Hausman
Words, Words, Words
Titles for Teaching Word Study	56	(7)
Baloney (Henry P.)	57	(2)
Jon Scieszka
Once There Was a Bull...(Frog)	59	(1)
Rick Walton
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster	60	(1)
Debra Frasier
Word Wizard	61	(1)
Cathryn Falwell
Double Trouble in Walla Walla	62	(1)
Andrew Clements
Same Sorts of Sounds
Titles for Teaching Alliteration	63	(6)
Some Smug Slug	64	(1)
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Alphabet Fiesta	65	(1)
Anne Miranda
Alligators All Around: An Alphabet	66	(1)
Maurice Sendak
A My Name is Alice	67	(1)
Jane Bayer
The Absolutely Awful Alphabet	68	(1)
Mordicai Gerstein
Crash! Bang! Boom!
Titles for Teaching Onomatopoeia	69	(6)
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type	70	(1)
Doreen Cronin
When Uncle Took the Fiddle	71	(1)
Libba Moore Gray
Hear That?	72	(1)
Tama Janowitz
Night in the Country	73	(1)
Cynthia Rylant
The Listening Walk	74	(1)
Paul Showers
Grouchy as a Bear
Titles for Teaching Similes	75
If You Hopped Like a Frog	76
David M. Schwartz
Quick as a Cricket	77
Audrey Wood
Grandfather's Lovesong	79
Reeve Lindbergh
The Bone Talker	80
Shelley A. Leedahl
Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse	81
Jeanne Modesitt