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Big Mama Makes the World |
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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: | ||||||||
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: | ||||||||
| Picture: Yes | |||||||||
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): legends, tales, and myths, fiction | |||||||||
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Summary: |
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| 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: |
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| 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 Conversationshttp://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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