Higher Order Thinking Skills

March 12, Volume 21

Wordless Picture Books An excellent open-ended activity to promote critical thinking skills!

• Have students use sticky notes to tell the story in their own words. • Partner /Share and have the students create a summative sentence to go with each page. (This could be done by book or page) • Complete a graphic organizer having students identify characters, settings, and events. • Have students write and perform scripts using puppets, dioramas, and or/sound effects in order to integrate art and/or music.

• Have students make their own wordless storybook. • Summarize the story in 25 words or less. • Using the “Zoom” , cut out the pages and see of the group can sequence the pages. • Students construct their own wordless picture book by using magazine pictures.

Wordless Picture Books

• 123: What Do You See? Arlene Alda, • A Boy, a Dog and a Frog, Mercer Mayer, • A Day, A Dog, Gabrielle Vincent, • A Frog Goes to Dinner • A Frog on his Own

Gifted and Talented Specialist Valerie Allen-801-254-8047/South Area Collette Justesen-801-567-8405/Title I Deanna Taylor-801-567-8406/Literacy K-3/North Area

• Adventures of Paddy Pork; Paddy Goes Traveling (and others), John Goodall, • Ahchoo! • Albert B. Cub and Zebra: An Alphabet Storybook Anne Rockwell, • Alligator's Toothache by DeGroat • Anno's alphabet by Mitsumasa Anno • Anno's Flea Market • Anno's USA • Anno's Journey • Anno¹s Britain; • Anno¹s Counting Book; • Anno¹s Counting House; • Apples by Nonny Hogrogrian • April Fools • Arthur's Adventure in the Abandoned House by Fernando Krahn • Baby Takes a Trip by MacGregor • Balloon Trip by Wegen • Beach Ball by Peter Sis • Birthday Trombone by Hartelius • Blue Sea by Kalan • Bobo's Dream Alexander, Martha G. • Books by Jeanne Willis • Breakfast Time, Ernest and Celestine, Ernest and Celestine's Patchwork Quilt by Gabrielle Vincent • Bubble,Bubble • Carl Goes Shopping, Alexandra Day • Carl Goes to Daycare, Alexandra Day • Carl's Birthday, Alexandra Day • Changes, Changes, Pat Hutchins, • Changing City by Muller, Jorg • Changing Countryside by Muller, Jorg • Christmas, Peter Spier, • Clown by • Cocoon by Massie • Creepy Castle • Dad's Back by Ormerod, Jan • Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle • Do Not Disturb, Follow Me by Tafuri • Do you Want to be my Friend by • Dylan¹s Day Out , Peter Catalanotto, • Elephant Buttons, Norika Ueno, • English Village by John Goodall • Follow the Leader • Four hungry kittens by Emily Arnold McCully • Free Fall by: Wiesner, David • Good Dog, Carl, Alexandra Day, • Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman • Graham Oakley's Magical Changes • Graphic Alphabet; City By Numbers, Stephen Johnson, • Great Escape, I Can't Sleep by Phillipe DuPasquier • Harold and the purple crayon by Johnson • Have You Seen My Duckling? Nancy Tafuri, • Heartaches of a French Cat McClintock, Barbara • Hector Protector by Sendak • Hiccups • Hide-and-seek, Renata Meyer • Home, Jeannie Baker, • Hot on the Scent, Bech • Hug, Jez Alborough, • In My Garden by Cristini • Inside-Outside Book of , Munro, Roxie • Inter-city by Charles Keeping. Oxford University Press, 1977. • Look What I Can Do by Aruego, Jose • Looking for Ginny by Dubois • Magpie Magic by April Wilson • Main Street • Moonlight by Jan Ormerod • Noah¹s Ark, Peter Spier, • One Frog Too Many • Paddy the Pig • Pancakes for Breakast; Tomie dePaola, • Pancakes, pancakes, Flicks, The Hunter and the Animals, Sing, = • Picnic, by Emily Arnold McCully • School, by Emily Arnold McCully • New Baby, by Emily Arnold McCully • Picture a letter by Brad Sneed • Pierrot, Sing by DePaola • Polar Express, Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg • Rain; Peter Spier, • Reading by Ormerod, Jan • Reverse of 3 bears - bear visits people • Rezoom, Istvan Banyai, • Round and Round and Round by Hoban, • Sebastian and the Mushroom • Secret in the Dungeon, • Shadows and Reflections by Hoban, Tana • Shrewbettina's Birthday; and others John Goodall • Silver Pony : A Story in Pictures by: Ward, Lynd • Sir Andrew by Paula Winter • Sleeping by Ormerod, Jan • Small Miracle, Peter Collington, • Small Miracles ;Peter Spier, • Snowman, , • Story of a Farm • Sun's Up by Euvremer • Sunshine by Jan Ormerod • Tabby, A Story in Pictures by Aliki • The Adventures of Paddy Pork • The Alphabet, Monique Felix • Midnight Circus, by Peter Collington, • The Tooth Fairy by Collington • The Angel and the Soldier Boy, Peter Collington, • The Bear and the Fly : A Story by: Winter, Paula • The Boat, Monique Felix • The Christmas kitten by Carroll, Ruth • The City by Florian • The Colors, Monique Felix • The Creepy Thing • The Frank book by Jim Woodring • The Gray Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang • The Hunter and the Animals, Tomie dePaola, • The Inside-Outside Book of New York (and others), Alice Munro, • The Numbers, Monique Felix • The Silver Pony by Lynd Ward • The Wind, Monique Felix • The Yellow Umbrella, Jae-Soo Liu, • Time Flies, Eric Rohmann, • Truck by Donald Crews • Tuesday ; Free Fall; Sector 7, David Wiesner, • Tuesday, David Wisner, • Two Bad Ants • Up a Tree by Ed Young, • Up and Up by Hughes • Up to Ten and Down Again by Ernst • Where's My Monkey? By Schubert • Will¹s Mammoth, Rafe Martin, • Window by Jeannie Baker • Wrong side of the bed by Ardizonne • Yellow umbrella by Jae Soo Liu • Yo! Yes! by Chris Raschka • You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Weitzman • Zoom by Istvan Banyai (also ReZoom)