Creating and Using PopUp Books to Foster Literacy Development in the Elementary Child

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Creating and Using Pop-Up Books to Foster
Literacy Development in the Elementary Child

• Jay D. Ballanger, M.A. CCC-SLP
• (Kirksville R-III School District)
• 2007 MSHA ConventionOsage Beach, MO

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Simple Operation (2002)
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Stories are easier to remember-because in many
ways, stories are how we remember.
Daniel Pink
A Whole New Mind (2006)
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Is Art a Language?

• Both are pervasive
• Both are built from basic units
• Both have a syntax or grammar
• Both are culturally specific
• Both change over time
• Both are learned symbol systems
• The language of art and the art of language?

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Humans are not ideally set up to understand
logic they are ideally set up to understand
stories.
Roger C. Schank
cognitive scientist
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Relationship Between Visual
Arts and Language

• Koster, J.B. (2001)
• On your handout (p. 2)

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Stories are the vehicle which keeps language
alive, and in turn, the way a person tells a
story is as important as the story itself.

Peggy V. Beck
Parabola (1995)
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Visual Literacy

• The ability to interpret meaning through graphic
  stimuli which provides an alternative way of
  knowing and promotes higher order thinking and
  problem solving abilities.
• Richards,
  J. Anderson, N. (2003) p. 442

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STW Visual Literacy Strategy

• S ee T hink W onder
• On your handout (p. 10)
• Richards, J.
  Anderson, N. (2003)

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Reluctant Readers Writers

• High Risk At-Risk students
• Visual, kinesthetic, tactile learners
• Process drama (Macy, 2003)
• Readers Theater (Freedman, 1990)
• Picture Writing (Olshansky, 1995)

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Picture Writing
picturewriting.org
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Picture writing techniques help various
sub-groups.

• Create art collage papers
• Look at papers for ideas/inspiration
• Cut papers into shapes
• Arrange picture
• Glue shapes down to create collage
• Begin process of writing

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Haiku Poems based on the Picture Writing Process
Drops of lava fall Fire raining down to
earth Burning all of life.
All examples 3rd Grade
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Thinking Chart

• In your handout (p. 8)

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Bright light, stormy sky Fireball slices
darkness Ground shakes, ground explodes
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Churning, bubbling sea Darting fish escape the
steam Zooming fast away
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Four hunters with spears sitting around the
campfire. Lightning scares the emus. Giant emus
run around the hunters. The hunters look for
emus in the grass and by the rivers.
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Ellen G.K. RubinIdeas in Motion (2005)
The use of wheels, flaps, turn-ups, pull-tabs,
and pop-ups grabs the readers attention and
ensures active participation. Whether intended
for teaching, entertainment, or aesthetic
sensibility, the use of movable paper devices
demands the reader interact with the books
content and makes the experience more memorable.
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Why bookmaking projects for speech/language
students?

• Improves self-concept and confidence (sharing
  experiences)
• Develops fine motor skills
• Creates opportunities for social interaction and
  for self-discovery
• Improves problem solving and decision making
• Assists in sensory awareness
• Vocabulary development! Increased literacy!

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Children as Makers of Meaning

• Interweaves play - talk - drawing
• Powerful combination of three communication modes
  working together
• (Dyson, 1990 Cross, 1999)

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Narrative Creation

• Ongoing narrative creation is happening inside
  the childs mind
• Occurs during the pop-up book making process
• Questioning What could this be in your story?
  What does it look like? Could this box be a
  chair? Fireplace?
• Tell me your story. What else is needed?

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Obstacles to Expressive Intervention

• Verbal/Visual Stereotypes (Dead End Characters)
• Enrich the Commonplace
• Reduce Convenience Images
• Personal Images Help child to develop
  creative/unique characters
• Become the Story Conductor
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  (Johnson, 1992)

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Adapting Books (1)

• Large dot of hot glue in upper right hand corner
  of page to separate pages (fluffer)
• Velcro attach one part to right side of page,
  wrap other part around childs hand
• Attach pony-tail holders to the movable parts of
  the book. Child pulls to activate

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Adapting Books (2)

• Piece of Velcro attached to back of book cover
  Push book onto carpet/carpet sample to attach and
  stay put
• (Musslewhite
  King-DeBaun, 1997)

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1200s
1300s
1500s
Volvelles Gatefolds
Llulls Volvelles
Apianus Astronomy
1800s
1900s
2000s
Movable Books for Children (Golden Age 1)
Golden Age 2
Golden Age 1
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Holt, Rinehart Winston (1973)
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Paper Engineer????

• Takes the ideas of the author and the illustrator
  and puts motion into the characters and action
  into the scenes.
• Must be imaginative AND practical.
• Determines how the movable pieces will attach to
  the page so they wont break, which points need
  glue and how much, how long pull tabs should be
  and how high a piece can pop up.
• Lays out, nests the pages and pieces so they
  fit onto the correct size pages for printing.

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America the Beautiful
Movable Mother Goose
Encyclopedia Prehistorica
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Sabuda Reinhart Encyclopedia Prehistorica
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Robert Sabuda The Twelve Days of Christmas
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The Pocket Paper Engineer
Workbook
Carol Barton Five Luminous Towers
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Joan Irvine
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Chuck Murphy Black Cat, White Cat A
Pop-Up Book of Opposites
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David A. Carter
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New at the Zoo 2 by Kees Moerbeek
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Little Monsters
Jan Pienkowski Paper Engineers Marcin
Stajewski, James Roger Diaz
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Dinner Time
Concept Jan Pienkowski Text Anne Carter Paper
engineers Marcin Stajewski, James Roger Diaz
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Pop-Up Book Facts

• There are between 200-300 new pop-up books
  produced in English each year.
• Currently, almost all pop-up books are assembled
  by hand, mostly in Colombia S.A., Mexico and
  Singapore.
• Production lines can have as many as 60 people
  working to complete one book.
• The most complex books can require over 100
  individual handwork procedures to complete.

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Sequencing

• Rearrange story
• Different beginnings
• Different endings
• What happens in the beginning, middle end?
• Pin pages on a clothes line to rearrange and see
  all pages at once

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• Topics/Guiding Questions (p. 9)
• Language/Literacy Group Ideas (p. 5)

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6th-7th Grade Pop-Up BooksBased on a Theme
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SACRED
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WASTE
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FEAR
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Fear of the Unknown
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Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Waiting
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Sight
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Hate
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Other Book Forms

• Mix Match Book
• Cathedral Book

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Ask yourself WHY?

• Why does this book
• want to exist?