Edutopia: Teachers Can Help Students Learn to Communicate with Picture Books

Early childhood education teachers can help students explore how to communicate before they learn how to write with picture books, a new article by Edutopia explains.

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Before students obtain the skills necessary to learn to write, teachers in pre-k and kindergarten classes can help students learn to communicate meaningful events and feelings through drawing and picture books.

The Edutopia article provides a list of seven picture books that show how illustrations and minimal text can help to communicate ideas. The list includes:

• Wait (Antoinette Portis)

• Hop (Jorey Hurley)

• A Squiggly Story (Andrew Larson and Mike Lowery)

• Why the Face? (Jean Jullien)

• Green (Laura Vaccaro Seeger)

• Be Who You Are (Todd Parr)

• Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Happy (Scott Menchin)

For descriptions of the books, check out Edutopia’s article “Using Picture Books to Support Meaning-Making in the Early Grades.”