Crash, Bang, Boom: Exploring Literary Devices Through Children's Literature
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Make learning about literary devices exciting! Crash, Bang, Boom explores 11 reading skills and literary devices through 55 popular children's books. Each skill or device is introduced, explained and reinforced with five related picture books. The books include simple activities that reinforce the skill, discussion prompts that do not require a great deal of materials or preparation time and the multiple intelligences addressed in the lesson. The skills and devices covered in Crash, Bang, Boom are: onomatopoeia, alliteration, prediction, characterization, cause and effect, setting, simile, word study, inference and drawing conclusions, point of view and main idea.
Introduction5How to Use This Book6Getting the Big Picture: Titles for Teaching Main Idea7Oliver Button Is a Sissy8Verdi9Thank You, Mr. Falker10Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth11The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants12Where? When? Titles for Teaching Setting13The Principal's New Clothes14The Legend of the Bluebonnet15The Talking Eggs: A Folktale From the American South17Cindy Ellen: A Wild West Cinderella18Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale20It Happened Because ...: Titles for Teaching Cause and Effect21If You Give a Pig a Pancake22That's What You Get!24Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs25The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash27The Rain Came Down29What Happens Next? Titles for Teaching Prediction30Joseph Had a Little Overcoat31Suddenly32Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch33Chester the Worldly Pig35Just a Dream36I Think ...: Titles for Teaching Inference and Drawing Conclusions37Miss Tizzy38The Story of Ruby Bridges39The Art Lesson41Tough Boris42Yo! Yes?43I See ... You See ...: Titles for Teaching Point of View44The Other Side45The Greatest46I Wish I Were a Butterfly47Voices in the Park48Zoom49How Are You Feeling? Titles for Teaching Characterization50Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings51On Monday When It Rained52How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods53Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day54A to Z: Do You Ever Feel Like Me?55Words, Words, Words: Titles for Teaching Word Study56Baloney (Henry P.)57Once There Was a Bull ... (Frog)59Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster60Word Wizard61Double Trouble in Walla Walla62Same Sorts of Sounds: Titles for Teaching Alliteration63Some Smug Slug64Alphabet Fiesta65Alligators All Around: An Alphabet66A My Name is Alice67The Absolutely Awful Alphabet68Crash! Bang! Boom! Titles for Teaching Onomatopoeia69Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type70When Uncle Took the Fiddle71Hear That?72Night in the Country73The Listening Walk74Grouchy as a Bear: Titles for Teaching Similes75If You Hopped Like a Frog76Quick as a Cricket77Grandfather's Lovesong79The Bone Talker80Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse81
