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The Bug Book

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The Bug Book
by Sue Fliess (Author)

Booktalk: The BIG Picture

Bugs, bugs, everywhere! There are big bugs and small bugs, creeping bugs and flying bugs. Grab your bucket and explore the dirt and the sky.

#kidlit Writing Lesson: the small details

This rhyming story opens with an invitation to readers:

Grab your bucket. Check your guide.
Let’s go find some bugs outside.

Notice the use of the second person voice.

Grab your bucket.

Second person is the voice used to give directions.

Check your guide.

Each line has a different action verb.

Let’s go find some bugs outside.

Each line on this first page is a call to action.

See the book trailer.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Copyright © 2016 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.

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Big Chickie, Little Chickie: A Book of Opposites

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Big Chickie, Little Chickie: A Book of Opposites (board book)
by Janee Trasler (Author/Illustrator)

Booktalk: The BIG Picture

As the Chickies say cheese, young readers learn their opposites.

#kidlit Writing Lesson: the small details

The book begins:

Picture time, Chickies.
Clickety-click.

Brush your feathers.
Make it quick!

The first line sets up the entire book:

Picture time, Chickies.

The first line shows readers who the main characters are. It also tells readers what the main characters will do in the book. All this in just three words!

Janee is one of my former students!

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