Rise Up

Picturebook as object
Front Cover: Explain that Amyra asked Molly to draw fowers especially Lilies in the picturebook in memory of her mother. Can the children see lilies on the front cover?
Back cover: Read the blurb: what is freedom? Is it a place? Ist it a thought? Can it be stolen? Can it be bought? Use these questions as prompts for thinking about freedom. Point out the picturebook is a poem.
Endpapers: Front and back are the same… bright and psychedelic. Can they see the lily in the front endpapers?
Dedication: The creators thank each other – can be used as a prompt to highlight the importance of working together and collaborating on projects
Title page: Could the illustration here be the photograph the mother and child are looking at in the first opening?

Multiliteracies
Civic literacy: Defining and discussing the concept of freedom based on questions from the poem: Is it …? Can it …?
Identifying which children’s rights are connected with the concept of freedom.
Literary literacy: Identifying rhyming words.
Considering the effect of the refrain: Inhale. Exhale.
Noticing punctuation in the poem.
Performing the poem.
Visual and emotional literacy: Identifying and reading emotions – happiness, peace, hope, reflection, wonder, determination.

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Teacher education
In this video I ask student teachers to consider a number or words and colours and carry out some research before actually reading the book.

Useful inks: Poetry in the Classroom , Understanding Poetry and Comparing Poems

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