Wordless+and+Interactive+Books

=Wordless and Interactive Books= Wordless books can build skills necessary for reading, including comprehension, sequencing, inference, prediction and print concepts like reading top to bottom and left to right. Another excellent reason to use wordless books with your students is that even emergent or struggling readers can engage in the story. Wordless books help those with learning disabilities or the ESOL students as they grow into readers.

Interactive books have some element included in the story that allows the reader to interact with the story. These books are excellent for emergent readers and to illustrate to reluctant readers that reading can be fun and active.

Reading Assignment
Read 5 of the titles on the lists below, at least one from each type of book. Share the titles you read on Edmodo. Journey by Aaron Becker Mr. Wuffles by David Weisner Hank Finds an Egg by Rebecca Dudley Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle Bluebird by Bob Staake Mudkin by Stephen Gammell Hero of Little Street by Gregory Rogers Chalk by Bill Thomson Laundry Day by Maurie Manning Unspoken by Henry Cole The Arrival by Shaun Tan The Boy and the Airplane by Mark Pett A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka The Conductor by LaetitiaDevernay Robot Dreams by Sara Varon Stick Man’s Really Bad Day by Steve Mockus Ball by Mary Sullivan Hocus Pocus by Sylvie Desrosiers Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Sea of Dreams by Dennis Nolan <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Oops by Arthur Geisert

Press Here by HerveTullet <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Animal Opposites by PetrHoracek <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">That is Not a Good Idea by Mo Willems <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Windblown by EdouardManceau <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Peck PeckPeck by Lucy Cousins <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Hooray Parade by Barbara Joosse <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Hippopposites by Janik Coat <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Open Very Carefully by Nick Bromley <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">A Long Way Away by Frank Viva <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">YooHoo Ladybug by Mem Fox <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">What Will Hatch? By Jennifer Ward <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Count the Monkeys by Mac Barnett <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The Line by Paula Bossio <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Nightlight by Nicholas Blechman <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The Silver Button by Bob Graham <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">One Gorilla by Anthony Browne <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">If You Want to See a Whale by Julie Fogliano <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Spot the Dot by David CarterLittle <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ghost Party by Jacques Duquennoy

Technology Assignment
Book trailers are an excellent way to generate excitement for reading. Your assignment this month is to create a Youtube account (if you don't already have one) and subscribe to at least two book trailer channels. Below are a few publisher channels you may want to consider, or you may find some on your own. Write a post in Edmodo providing your Youtube account name and the channels to which you subscribed. Harper Kids Macmillan Childrens HarperCollins Children's BooksCandlewick Press Penguin Young Readers Annick Press

Resources: Top Ten Wordless Picture Books on the Nerdy Book Club Blog A Ball For Daisy and the Power of Wordless Books, a lesson idea for teaching CC standard, Key Ideas Discover the Power of Wordless Books, how one teacher uses them with many levels 12 Best Interactive Books for Kids http://pigtailpalsblog.com/ http://www.storylineonline.net/