Jason Fritze tells us how we can just open to a page in one of those super sized children’s books and just start talking about it. Totally stress free teaching. The words are so easy to get into the discussion – the visual input sparks discussion like nothing else. We talk about the power of the mental image but then we forget about the power of the physical image. I don’t know why we don’t use Jason’s idea a lot more often. Those big book images may not keep interest high for more than ten minutes, but, as we do with Pauvre Anne, we can spin ’em into something crazy. An image of the seal in the circus tent and the monkey in its rafters can make for some good spinning (ok maybe, as a French teacher, I might avoid discussing the seal).
