Why we like it: Cool illustrations and
rhythmic text make it fun to look at and to read out loud together.
Josephine Baker's life provides so much material for children to wonder about, and this title's beautiful illustrations and
rhythmic text invite children to explore this legendary artist.
With
rhythmic text and delicate retro-esque illustrations from Jamey Christoph, Up in the Leaves is an excellent nonfiction read aloud offering several opportunities for further classroom exploration.
Using the cumulative style of «This Is the House That Jack Built,»
rhythmic text and digitally enhanced illustrations depict a freshwater - marsh food chain, from the mucky mud and reeds to mayflies nibbling algae to the eagle swooping down to catch a fish.
This lovely animated adaptation of the 2010 Caldecott Honor Book, beautifully illustrated by Marla Frazee and written by Liz Garton Scanlon, is warmly narrated by Joanne Woodward, whose voice matches
the rhythmic text, which «follows a circle of family and friends through the course of one day.»
Spare,
rhythmic text and swirling abstract illustrations take readers of all ages into the bebop world of Charlie «Bird» Parker and John «Dizzy» Gillespie.
Rhythmic text and identifiable illustrations are known to help young children learn more easily.
Easy - to - read,
rhythmic text about a group of farm animals, led by a tenacious duck, who play a noisy game together.
The book's dazzling colors and simple,
rhythmic text will engage and entertain him.
It helps familiarize children with letters in a silly way, with
rhythmic text and bold cheerful art.
This story in three parts uses
rhythmic text to summarize the rules of segregation and many events that comprised the civil rights movement, and also provide a look at where are we now.
Known for
his rhythmic texts pasted across posters on billboards and hoardings around East London, and for his dramatic light pieces and fire poems displayed throughout the world, Scottish artist Robert Montgomery brings a poetic voice to the discourse on Text Art.
Not exact matches
Regarding specific stages based on the
text, or what Whitehead might prefer to call «
rhythmic cycles» one might argue for the following configuration, which appears very Sullivanian in character: Infancy, Adolescence, Youth, Particularized - Self - Transcendence, Peace.
The
text of the Mass has its own innate
rhythmic structure and it is this that Gregorian chant facilitates.
Overdependence on the
rhythmic structures of the music rather than on the
text is a problem exclusive to more recent styles of music.
Because Gregorian chant lacks the regular
rhythmic stresses and accents, it relies on these aspects of the
text to give it impetus.
The
text is a soothing and
rhythmic description of a bunny's bedtime ritual.
Betsy Franco's
rhythmic, cumulative
text makes this a lively read - aloud, and rich, luminous paintings by Stefano Vitale capture the bold beauty of nature.
He invests many scenes from Henry V (1989) with cinematic sweep and
rhythmic visual editing, but the emphasis seldom strays far from great actors engaging the
text.
*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze
text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and
rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 -
text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!
Every student would take part in a 15 - minute, arts - infused learning activity, like reading a poem by Maya Angelou, then entering the
text through
rhythmic and melodic interpretations, using voices and found objects to create a cacophony of sounds; or finding a specimen in nature, then analyzing and drawing it in visual journals.
The story for 2017 is The Cow Tripped over the Moon written by Tony Wilson and illustrated by Laura Wood — a
rhythmic, rhyming
text about resilience and friendship.
A female voice - over adds disparate narratives to the
rhythmic movements of the bottles, addressing both lighthearted and serious topics drawn from
texts found on the internet.
In these works, Sparagana blurs and erases figures and
texts — pulled from classic comics such as Dick Tracy and Nancy — distorting them to near indecipherability within
rhythmic patterns, reconfigured into grids contaminated by narrative.
Employing lo - fi technologies, Perry layers and loops, samples and processes pieces of video footage,
text and sound to create erratic,
rhythmic artworks with non-linear narratives that give clues to the artist's own lived experience.
Lê's
text performs a dual work, both contextualizing Dizon's images in the history of empire and unleashing a
rhythmic play with language, both visually and aurally, to cut to the core of how meaning is produced.
Norwegian - born Lippard, whose practice explores the voice as a medium, brings her background in graphic design to the table, exploring how the visual power of language and the
rhythmic and performative aspects of
text.
Viewed aesthetically, the composition of the piece — the weight of the letters fluctuating with each line, the spacing between the lines methodically decreasing as the
text progresses, the winding italics creating
rhythmic markers on a background of «ghost
text» from the same selection peering through a thin overcoat of white paint — encourage appreciation of the textural qualities of the written word.