Summary:
Think about some categories to use in planning a picture book – either by yourself or with some friends.
You might consider such categories as:
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Alison Lester: I reckon we could make a book too.
Are you ready?
Alright.
Let's do a book about you.
What sort of things do you kids do?
Are you sporty kids?
Would sport be a good category?
I think we should maybe have four categories.
So, if we had sport for one, what else could we have?
What about food? Is food good?
Children: Yes
Alison: What else do you do? Families? Fun? Clothes?
Children: TV
Alison: Oh, TV would be just one thing like a ... games would be good, that's different to sport do you think?
Or we'll put games in with sport?
Alright, games and what, one more, festivals maybe, or ...
What?
Children: Vegetables.
Alison: Vegetables?
Children: School.
Alison: School would be good, okay.
So we need six different things for sport.
Who does an interesting sport?
Girl: Soccer
Alison: What's your name?
Girl: Naomi.
Alison: So could we say, 'Naomi plays soccer?'
Or, 'Naomi scores at soccer' would sound better, wouldn't it?
I'll just put 'Naomi and soccer.'
Who else does a good sport?
Yeah?
Girl: Tennis.
Alison: Tennis. What's your best shot?
Girl: Backhand.
Alison: Backhand. And what's your name?
Girl: Tahlia.
Alison: So, could I say Tahlia, you could write 'Tahlia smashes a backhand.'
Who hasn't got one yet? Think, think. It could be food, games, school. Yep?
Girl: Netball.
Alison: Ah, I'm a netballer too. What's your name?
Girl: Rachel.
Alison: I bet you're good, are you? Are you a goaler or a defender?
Girl: I don't know, I just like playing it.
Alison: Ah, good. What's your name again?
Girl: Rachel.
Alison: Yeah?
Girl: Does reading count as school?
Alison: Yeah, reading would be good. What's your name?
Girl: Nancy.
Alison: Nancy. Any other good school ones? If you haven't got one it doesn't have to be your most favourite thing of anything. Yeah?
Girl: Food. Pizza.
Alison: Pizza. What's your name?
Girl: Gloria.
Alison: Who's left? Put your hand up if you haven't got one yet. What's yours?
Child: KFC
Alison: KFC. What's your name?
Child: Sala
Alison: Yep.
Girl: Writing.
Alison: Writing. Like creative writing?
Girl: Yeah.
Alison: What's your name?
Girl: Sarah.
Alison: Sarah, creative writing. Okay, do you reckon everyone's ready to go?
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Summary:
Alison Lester describes one possible layout for a picture book.
With a friend, discuss other ways of laying out a picture book.
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Alison Lester: If we use this, I guess I'd call it the framework, if we use it like this, if we have
double-page spreads that've got six illustrations on them like that.
And we've got sheets of paper, paper here.
So we'll ... this is how our book will be laid out.
So this would be a picture and then this would be the text, so all of you will do one.
This is for your picture and this is for your words.
It won't actually fit in the book if you do it that way so you have to do it landscape, which is sometimes
tricky if you're doing a picture that needs to be spread out, so think about how you're going to fit it in.
And this is for your words.
When you write your words make sure you make your name part of the sentence.
So I'd write, 'Alison loves riding her horse', or, you know, so you don't say 'I love ...'
We want your name to be in the book so it is your book.
And when you do your picture, you don't do a little squinched up one in one corner.
See if you can really fill it all up.
Draw and colour in like the wind.
Let's get going.
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Summary:
After planning and designing your book, it is time for writing and drawing.
Working alone, or with friends, you may like to:
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Alison Lester: Have you got a sticky-out computer or a newer one?
Child: I have a laptop.
Alison: Oh, okay. Well here you're actually sitting in the chair. Draw, draw. See, you could fit that in that shape, couldn't you?
Child: Hmm mmm.
Alison: How are you going? This says, 'Savannah loves getting people out at dodge ball. Oh, good. Are you going to do a big hurly throw coming in?
Child: Can you rub out?
Alison: Oh, no, that's beautiful. That's gorgeous. Maybe you could do a little bit of the cross-country course in the background.
Oh, this is a beautiful drawing. I haven't got my glasses on. 'Bill plays PlayStation while beating his friends at Multiplayer.'
That's a gorgeous picture. How are you going to colour it in?
Child: Oh, god.
Alison: You don't have to colour it in if you don't want to, we could leave them black and white.
But that's really beautiful lines, it's a gorgeous one. Well done. Don't worry too much about the ruler.
It's always better if they're a little bit crooked, the lines, instead of being too straight.
Savannah we have to work out what to say. Do you just want to say, 'Savannah loves netball? Savannah is good at netball?
Savannah is a speedy netball player?
Child: Speedy.
Alison: Alright Savannah, because that sounds nice for Savannah to ... is a speedy ...
Child: I was just trying to make an 's' on something ...
Alison: Yeah. Savannah is a speedy centre. Even though it's a 'c' it sounds like 's' doesn't it? Yeah?
Child: Yeah.
Alison: Is that good? Okay, you write that and do your netball picture.
Keep going with your tennis picture, that's good. 'Tahlia smashes a backhand to her opponent on the head.'
Oh, someone's ... Oh, this is a nice picture. Are you going to do your words? That's lovely.
A nice big tub of KFC with just one little bit left. Okay, put it like this, what's your name?
Child: Sala.
Alison: So, you write that first and then the finish of the sentence. And you could just write, 'Sala eats KFC.'
But you could think of something a bit more interesting, like, is there a special time you like it? Do you like it on Sunday night?
Or do you like it for lunch?
Child: Lunch.
Alison: Okay, 'Sala loves KFC for lunch.'
Child: Sala.
Alison: Sala, yep. Can play skipping. She beats everyone in double-dutch. She is always the best one skipping. Good girl.
Can I see? And you would've loved to have ... Oh, that's a beautiful picture of skipping.
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Summary:
When you are happy with your pictures and your story, follow your plan and make a book.
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Alison Lester: Oh, good on you. You could do that, do you want to be a sticker? So you have to make sure there's enough room for two more there.
Yep, you can stick too. No, I think it looks ... no we won't worry about going over it in texta, just keep
them in grey there because we need to get you home before dark.
It gets so dark so early now. I was out running the other day and I thought it was going to get dark at six thirty and it got dark at a quarter to six.
So, luckily I have a dog with a white tail and I had to follow the dog's tail home. Okay, you can put yours on. Is everyone finished?
Pretty close to being finished? Food, sport, games, is anyone doing school stuff? Anyone doing school? Yeah.
Alright, I might do it up here and then you can be the sticker for that one too. If you're finished bring them up and we'll stick them in.
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Summary:
How could the students further develop this book?
Consider:
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Alison Lester: Okay, so this is games. 'Sokeina can play skipping. She beats everyone in double-dutch. She is always the last one skipping.
Billy plays PlayStation 2 while beating his friend at Multiplayer.
Verin loves getting people out in dodgeball.
Food. Sala loves KFC for lunch.
Salote loves to eat hot chips.
Gloria loves chomping on pizza.
Sport. Tahlia smashes a backhand to her opponent on the head.'
I love this little prissy, blonde girl who's going to get it in the back of the head.
'Timothy likes to play Oztag.
Nadine runs energetically at the cross-country for a result of third place.
Rachel is great at shooting brilliant goals in netball.
Joshua likes to swim.
Naomi slide tackles an opponent in the soccer game.'
That's a great drawing too.
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