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Crash, Bang, Boom: Exploring Literary Devices Through Children's Literature »

Authors: Karen A. Gibson, Mimi Mandel
ISBN-13: 9781579500412, ISBN-10: 1579500412
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Highsmith Incorporated
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Karen A. Gibson

Book Synopsis

Make learning about literary devices exciting! Crash, Bang, Boom explores 11 reading skills and literary devices through 55 popular children's books. Each skill or device is introduced, explained and reinforced with five related picture books. The books include simple activities that reinforce the skill, discussion prompts that do not require a great deal of materials or preparation time and the multiple intelligences addressed in the lesson. The skills and devices covered in Crash, Bang, Boom are: onomatopoeia, alliteration, prediction, characterization, cause and effect, setting, simile, word study, inference and drawing conclusions, point of view and main idea.

	Introduction	5
	How to Use This Book	6
	Getting the Big Picture: Titles for Teaching Main Idea	7
	Oliver Button Is a Sissy	8
	Verdi	9
	Thank You, Mr. Falker	10
	Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth	11
	The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants	12
	Where? When? Titles for Teaching Setting	13
	The Principal's New Clothes	14
	The Legend of the Bluebonnet	15
	The Talking Eggs: A Folktale From the American South	17
	Cindy Ellen: A Wild West Cinderella	18
	Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale	20
	It Happened Because ...: Titles for Teaching Cause and Effect	21
	If You Give a Pig a Pancake	22
	That's What You Get!	24
	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs	25
	The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash	27
	The Rain Came Down	29
	What Happens Next? Titles for Teaching Prediction	30
	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	31
	Suddenly	32
	Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch	33
	Chester the Worldly Pig	35
	Just a Dream	36
	I Think ...: Titles for Teaching Inference and Drawing Conclusions	37
	Miss Tizzy	38
	The Story of Ruby Bridges	39
	The Art Lesson	41
	Tough Boris	42
	Yo! Yes?	43
	I See ... You See ...: Titles for Teaching Point of View	44
	The Other Side	45
	The Greatest	46
	I Wish I Were a Butterfly	47
	Voices in the Park	48
	Zoom	49
	How Are You Feeling? Titles for Teaching Characterization	50
	Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings	51
	On Monday When It Rained	52
	How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods	53
	Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day	54
	A to Z: Do You Ever Feel Like Me?	55
	Words, Words, Words: Titles for Teaching Word Study	56
	Baloney (Henry P.)	57
	Once There Was a Bull ... (Frog)	59
	Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster	60
	Word Wizard	61
	Double Trouble in Walla Walla	62
	Same Sorts of Sounds: Titles for Teaching Alliteration	63
	Some Smug Slug	64
	Alphabet Fiesta	65
	Alligators All Around: An Alphabet	66
	A My Name is Alice	67
	The Absolutely Awful Alphabet	68
	Crash! Bang! Boom! Titles for Teaching Onomatopoeia	69
	Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type	70
	When Uncle Took the Fiddle	71
	Hear That?	72
	Night in the Country	73
	The Listening Walk	74
	Grouchy as a Bear: Titles for Teaching Similes	75
	If You Hopped Like a Frog	76
	Quick as a Cricket	77
	Grandfather's Lovesong	79
	The Bone Talker	80
	Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse	81