Certificates Week 6

What Ways Do We Learn Best?

Visual Language

This term we are exploring the different features of picture books. When reading stories at home you could talk about the....

- Author / Illustrator
- Layout
- Size of text and pictures
- Amount of text in relation to picture
- Use of colour
- Special effects e.g. construction, pop ups, kinesthetic
- Purpose: entertain and inform
- Audience

Last week we read 'Our Big Blue Sofa' by Tim HopGood. We created our own imaginary stories about where we would travel to on the big blue sofa. This week we will create a textured picture to accompany our writing.

Towards the end of term we will write an ending to a story that Miss Campbell has started. Using 'StoryBird' we will add text and characters to the website using different features of picture books.

Investigate 'StoryBird' at home.

http://storybird.com