KP MVT: Children's picture books

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KP MVT: Children's picture books

Goal: To write and illustrate your own children's picture book 

Children's picture book?

How to write 

a children's picture book

Step 1: find your idea

• Topic? Story? 
• Browse the internet or a library's catalogue for  ideas. 
• Age range? 3 - 6 years olds! 
  --> What do you know about children this age? 
• Story has to have a happy ending 

Step 2: the story

- Start writing your story by making a timeline

                      - What happens first? 

                      - Second? Third? ... 
                      - How does it end? 

                      - Plot development! 

- Think about the style you are going to write in (rhyme? Level of English...) 

- Add at least three literary devices 

Plot development 

- Exposition

- Rising action

- Climax

- Falling action

- Resolution 

Literary devices? 

Alliteration                                   Imagery

Amplification                              Metaphor
Anthropomorphism                 Onomatopoeia

Colloquialism                              Oxymoron

Euphemism                                  Personification

Foreshadowing                           Portmanteau

Hyperbole             
              

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/literary-devices/

Step 3: Write, write, write

- max 1000 words

- 32 pages 

- Take a look at the examplees 

Step 4: peer feedback

Choose a classmate and read each other's story.
Give each other some feedback

Make sure to use the feedback the other person has given you. 

Step 5: Illustrations/Lay-out 

- Which lines on what page? 

- which drawing/drawings do you need on the pages? 

- Make the illustrations by using AI

---> Make sure to use correct and detailed prompts to get the best illustrations to support your story. 

Step 6: Assemble the book

Use Canva to put everything together

Planning 

Lesson 1:                                                                          Lesson 3: 

- LessonUp                                                                      -  Read some book of your classmates
- Brainstorm                                                                    - peer evaluation 

- Writing

Lesson 2: 

- Read each other's story 

- Lay-out and illustrations

- assembling

- upload book 

Les 3: 

Lezen en beoordelen van elkaars kinderboeken (peer evaluation)