The genius of the book’s large interactive flaps is that readers can construct how Flora’s friendship with the flamingo develops in different ways. You might also want to then have them do this with some of the other wordless picture books listed below in Further Explorations, such as Barbara Lehman’s The Red Book or Chris Raschka’s A Ball for Daisy. To emphasize the book’s interactive component, encourage them to also try telling the story differently if they flip the flaps down in a different order. They can take turns with each page, or take turns telling an entire story. Have pairs of students sit side by side, each handling one side of the book (i.e., one handles the flamingo’s story, while the other handles Flora’s story), and encourage them to walk through the illustrations and tell the stories of what is happening on each page to each other. Wordless picture books are terrific tools for helping children develop their oral language and emergent reading skills. Partner Picture Walks and Storytelling.Make sure to discuss the difference in gradient of the different emotions, such as theĭifference between sad and dejected, happy and elated, to help students write more vividly. Similar to the activity above, turn to any page in the book and brainstorm a list of emotions that the characters are feeling at that moment in the story. Precise Description of Character’s Emotions.
In either case, make sure to help students revise their writing by listing and using more vivid verbs. Older grades can refer to this list in writing workshop. For younger grades, use interactive or shared writing to write the text of the story.
As a class, brainstorm a list of action verbs that explain and describe what Flora and the flamingo are doing on each page. Full of versatility, Flora and the Flamingo is a delightful text for any part of your classroom instruction. The result is cinematic, for sure, as this dance of a blossoming friendship carries readers of all ages along with its delicate rhythm and pacing. Author/illustrator and former Dreamworks animator Molly Idle ensures the spotlight remains on the dancing pair through the use of a minimal background and restrained palette of pastels reminiscent of fellow wordless picturebook illustrator Suzy Lee. Moving the story cleverly forward are large flaps that can be turned over in a number of ways to create multiple plotlines. It’s no easy feat to follow, and the flamingo isn’t the most willing of teachers as it resists, ridicules, and rejects little Flora until her sheer sincerity begins to win it over. Donning a bathing suit, swimming flippers, and a yellow bathing cap, Flora sidles up to the flamingo whose graceful ballet she tries to emulate.
A nimble flamingo and an earnest but clumsy little girl make an unlikely dancing duo in the interactive and wordless picturebook, Flora and the Flamingo.
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