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THE
CAMPING CAPERS by
Joyce Harris-Thacker
Activity Guide:
Text
1. The text of a children's book is
usually organized into simple sentences and short paragraphs. How is the text
organized in this picturebook? Explain whether this organization was sufficient
for the story that this book is telling.
2. Children's book authors often employ
literary tools to help make the story more vivid in the reader’s minds.
Commonly used literary tools are rhythm, alliteration, repetition, refrains,
onomatopoeia, simile, personification, rhyme, and imagery. Identify three
different areas in the text where a literary tool has been employed. For each
example you identify, state the type of literary tool that is used and how the
employment of the tool helps support the story.
3. Identify two areas in the text that use
a question or other device to help move the reader to the next page.
Images
1. Some picture books have images on the
front cover that presents the main conflict or point of the story. Identify two
or more elements from the front cover of the book you are reviewing and explain
how they relate to the story.
2. What is the primary medium (collage,
drawings, photographs, etc.) used in the images?
3. Identify the image that in your opinion
is the most effective in developing the story as a whole. Explain how two or
more elements in the illustration help support and develop the story.
4. Identify two elements that are repeated
throughout a majority of the images. Explain how these elements support the story.
5. Find an example of how the images and
text work together to create irony, metaphor and/or metonymy.
Characterization
1. What is the easily identifiable
dominant trait of the story's main character?
2. Identify a character trait of the main
character that is established through the text.
3. Identify a character trait of the main
character that is established through the images.
4. Identify two character traits of the
main character that young children identify or sympathize with.
5. What was the main problem that the main
character faces in the book? How is this problem similar to a problem that most
children have faced before?
6. Sometimes a children's book character
will solve the main conflict on his or her own. How did the character in the
book you selected turn to self-reliance to solve the main conflict of the
story?
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