When words are too much

I’ve been meaning to do these posters forever (canva link) and not had the time. One of the things I like to have in our core collection is at least one picture book per grade. This week I’ve had all our G7 classes coming in to have a look at the books again as we move towards our Battle of the Core assembly and have our weekly quiz kahoots on the 75 books.

I was showing the group Mel Tregonning’s “Small Things” and one student latched onto it and was really interested in the concept of a wordless or silent picture book. He read it and then went on to this week’s display of wordless books and read a couple more.

Wordless or silent books are an amazing resource to have in your collection. You can read more about IBBY’s Silent Book project. They provide excellent prompts for creative writing, for quiet contemplation and for vocabulary and sentence structure development for language learners.

The posters are of a few in our collection but there are many more to explore.