Reading aloud a picture book facilitates a learning experience where you can model how to use the setting in a story to better understand the text and engage students in their learning by asking related questions. Below is a list of 10 picture books for teaching using the setting.

Using both types of books in your teaching helps your students become more flexible readers. The books are linked to Amazon, but you can most likely find these books in your school or local library. Here are the 25 Picture Books to Teach Story Elements 1. Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts. I’m starting off with my favorite!

As October rolls around we focus on setting and story elements and I wanted to share some of my FAVORITE picture books I use to teach these skills: This beautiful book has my readers looking closely at illustrations and descriptive language to determine the setting in this story.

10 great picture books for goal-setting with your students. Perfect for teaching kids to set goals, even in kindergarten and first grade!

Use picture books in your writing workshop to teach growing writers descriptive writing using sensory images, vivid verbs, precise adjectives, and rich figurative language. Certainly, many poetry books capture this kind of vivid description in compact phrases.