Using a StoryBook to Encourage Thinking, Writing, Speaking, Creating

There is a skillset involved in taking a picture book which you read to a child or a group of children and encouraging them to then think, write, speak, or create. I used to read the Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf to my teachers - in - training and show them how to use the words, pictures and elements of the story to encourage reading and geography and social and emotional learning skills and that was always a big success with my students.  The same can be accomplished using almost any storybook and with any group of students, or with your own child or children at home.  The intimacy of sitting around an adult reader provides one of those teachable moments to allow us to talk and learn.