Picture Book Reflection #1

Scieska, J. (1989). The true story of the three little pigs! By A. Wolf. New York: Viking.

     As we begin our class discussion about Flossie and the Fox, we begin to explore picture books. Everyone loves a good picture book, whether you be young or old, there is nothing like looking at a book with various types of carefully created artisitc media. From styles using collages to create pictures to actual photographs representing a specific part in a book, illustrations help to play a major part in many books.
      This particular helps students to learn about view points and perception. Through the story telling and descriptive language, readers are able to see a well known story from a completely different point of view. With this story, teachers are able to discuss perception and how sometimes it is everything. A teacher could use exit slips in which the students are asked to share what their perception of the story was as an excellent assessment tool. One could even use it as a pre-assessment and have the students ask the same question, but requiring that their responses be based solely on the title of the book.
      A personal connection that I would like to work on incorporating would be into a social studies lesson or unit on voting in which the book teaches a valuable lesson to my class in regards to perception and points of view and how although it is a topic that is very commonly talked about when an election is near, it can be misconstrued just be a simple misunderstanding. How would you incorporate this story into a social studies lesson? Please feel free to share!!