The Cabbage-cott Medal
With the announcement of the Caldecott and Newbery award winners, we’ve been busy sharing these new books with students. The title of this post refers to one first grader’s excited description of a book with a gold medal on its cover, “That book won the Cabbage-cott Medal!” he exclaimed.
Flotsam by David Weisner has been a jumping off point for looking at wordless books and more of Weisner’s award- winning books. Students have “read” the pictures together and discussed plot, character, setting and used descriptive language to describe what they see. A class of third graders seemed divided about whether they’d like words in the book: some students were concerned they wouldn’t know the “right” story, while others felt that no words left them “freer” to imagine their own narratives.
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