Big Mama Makes the World |
Publication Information
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Author: Root, Phyllis |
Illustrator: Oxenbury, Helen |
Title: Big Mama Makes the World |
Date: 2002 |
Publisher: Candlewick |
City: Cambridge, MA |
ISBN, paperback: 0763611328 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
legends, tales, and myths, fiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
A simple text and colorful illustrations retell the creation story with a mother as the creator. Some readers might be offended by the non-traditional creation story. Others could find the illustrations childish. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book could be used in a small text set on creation myths for a discussion of similarities and differences. Readers should enjoy discussing and writing about the differences that a mother-creater makes in the creation story. Learners could re-write the myth with a child as the creator. What would change? Teachers might use the author's comment on the origin of the story (back flap of the book jacket) as a writing prompt for students to tell their stories. |
Teaching Strategies: |
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Book Conversations
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf
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Discussion Webs
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf
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Helping Students in the Writing Process
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
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Venn Diagrams
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
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