Assignment:
Overview:
For this assignment, you will select a Picturebook that is appropriate for children up to age 8 and then answer a set of questions related to the story's content and illustrations. There are 14 questions included, each worth approximately 7 points.
You are encouraged (as always) to use actual hard copies of the books. However, for your convenience, you may use the options provided in the unit for this assignment.
Instructions:
• First, choose one (1) children's Picturebook to evaluate.
• Then, in the assignment link in Blackboard, discuss each of the following questions using complete sentences that explain your ideas:
1. Share which Picturebook you chose and why you chose it. Then, provide a brief summary of the book.
2. How appropriate is the content of the book for its intended age level? What elements make it appropriate or inappropriate for that age group?
3. Is this a book that will appeal to children, or is it really written for adults? Explain your answer.
4. What is the quality of the language of the text? Support your answer with specific examples.
5. Are the characters well delineated and developed? In what ways? Explain.
6. Are stereotypes regarding race, gender, and ability avoided? Describe specifically how stereotypes are avoided or reinforced.
7. Does the story exemplify good storytelling? Explain.
8. Explain how the theme is developed through text and illustrations.
9. In what ways do the illustrations help create the meaning of the text? Explain using specific examples.
10. Through the illustrations, how has the artist portrayed the setting of when and where the story takes place?
11. Do the illustrations extend the text in any way? How?
Children's Literature and Language Arts
Unit 3 Assignment: Picturebook Evaluation
12. Do the illustrations provide clues to the action of the story? Explain using specific examples.
13. Are the pictures accurate and consistent with the text? How does the illustrator create or fail to create consistency?
14. How are pictures made an integral part of the text?
Requirements:
• Use your own words and include the in-text citation for any resources you may use when answering some of these questions.
o For example, if you are citing your textbook, use the in-text citation: (Kiefer & Tyson, 2019) and the reference: Kiefer, B. Z., Tyson, C. A., Parsons Barger, B., Patrick, L. & Reilly-Sanders, E. (2019). Charlotte Huck's children's literature: A brief guide (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
• Be sure to use appropriate paragraph breaks and keep your writing free from spelling and grammatical errors.
Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you write and again after you write.