Creating a Digital Picture Book

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1 Creating a Digital Picture Book Name: #: DUE: 12/17

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3 Table of Contents Directions... 4 What is a Picture Book?... 5 About the Author... 6 Who is your audience... 7 Images... 8 Crazy Characters... 9 Setting Conflict Creating an Introduction Rising Action Climax Falling Action Conclusion Summary Rubric... 16

4 Directions You will construct a digital picture book to tell a story. This project will require you to do a great deal of planning before you begin constructing the actual book. Please be sure to use this entire guide. For this project you will need to use Google Docs. Your story must be fictional, which means "not true". However, you may choose any genre that is under the fictional category. Genres to choose from: Fiction Realistic Fiction Mystery Historical Fiction Fantasy Folktale Science Fiction What genre are you going to choose? Nonfiction Informational Text Biography Autobiography Please list the traits of the genre:

5 What is a Picture Book? A picture book is a book designed to help children learn how to read, tell an entertaining story, and/or teach students about a topic. Picture books use words and illustrations to tell a story. As a general rule, each turn of the page reveals a new picture, or series of pictures. When picture books have text, it is straightforward. Many picture books use rhyming text to teach children about word rhythms and patterns. If the text is intended to be read by the child, it is usually printed in a clear, large font so that the child can readily pick out words on the page. More complex text may be in a smaller font, fitting more of a story in words onto each page. Carefully read and write the titles of four picture books. Try to a select a couple books that have small font and few words. Also, select a few books that have small fonts with many words

6 About the Author The first page of your digital book will include a small autobiography about the author -you! Think of some interesting things you would like your audience to know about you. This can include talents, family members, or reasons why you wrote this particular story. What are some things you would like the audience to know about you?

7 Who is Your Audience? As you begin to write your digital picture book, remember your audience -the people you re writing for. You will choose your audience from the list below. Circle your audience. K Remember, an audience is unique. Think about your audience's interests, reading ability, topics that are appropriate, and what they know. Please generate a list of things you know about your audience.

8 Images Each page in a picture book must have one image. The images must align (match) with the words very carefully. Think of the words and images being a team they must work together to tell readers the complete story. For this project, you must create images. You may create your images by drawing them, using your own photos, taking pictures of models, or making images from construction paper. YOU CANNOT USE OTHER S IMAGES OR PHOTOS FROM THE INTERNET.

9 Crazy Characters All good stories have exciting characters with very clear character traits. Remember, there are two types of character traits: physical and personality. Physical traits are things like a person s height, age, hair color, or where they are from. Personality traits demonstrate a way a character thinks or acts, such as being excited or aggressive. Good characters have a variety of traits, just like you. Don t forget, the main character of a story is called the protagonist. The person working against the protagonist is called the antagonist. Character Traits Character Physical Trait Personality Trait Protagonist Antagonist Other Character Other Character Other Character

10 Setting Every story has a setting, which is where the story takes place. Some stories have multiple settings depending on the length. Regardless to the length, a setting has a signficant impact on the story. The setting creates a place where the characters interact and create drama. The setting itself can even be the cause of the drama. For example, in the novel Hatchet, the setting is a forrest. The harsh forest always seems to be working against the protagnoist, Brian. Brian struggles to find food and shelter because of the rough conditions. For your picture book, the setting must have a signficant impact on the story. Your setting(s) must be unique and help create the tension. Once you have selected a setting, ask yourself the following question, Could my story and events take place exactly the same way with a different setting? If you answered yes, then you need to spend more time developing your setting. My story takes place Adjectives Things to do Who or what lives there Time of day and year

11 Conflict Once you have created some crazy characters, you have to give your main character a conflict to encounter. The conflict has to be a really tough and interesting problem. As the story starts to unfold, the conflict must get larger. The conflict has to take time to solve. Good writers develop a conflict by presenting many small problems. These small problems will grow into a large conflict. Answer the questions below to help you develop an exciting conflict. What s your character s problem? Why is it a large problem?

12 An Introduction In order to start your story, you have to create an introduction. The introduction allows the readers to get familiar with the setting and the characters. An introduction needs to be just the right length. If the introduction is too long the reader will become bored. If the introduction is too short, the reader won't know enough about the characters to develop a connection. Rising Action To help build the drama, you will need to have rising action. Rising action is when the events keep getting more intense as the story goes on. The events keep building on each other to create tension. Readers should feel like they are slowly going up a giant hill of a rollar coaster.

13 Climax Have you ever been on a roller coaster? The best part of a roller coaster is being at top of the biggest hill. Although it takes some time to climb to the top of that hill, once you reach the top your heart starts pounding because of the excitement. There s no turning back! It s just like the climax of a story. The most important part of any story is the climax. The climax is the point in a story where the tension is the highest. The direction of the story permantly changes. Answer the questions below to help you create an awesome climax. What other events came before your climax? Think of the event that is going to be your climax. In detail, describe the event. How is the climax going to change the direction of your story?

14 Falling Action After the climax, the next part of your story must be the falling action. The falling action is where the major problem (conflict) gets solved. How is your conflict solved? Conclusion The end of a story is the conclusion. The purpose of a conclusion is to wrap-up the story and tie-up any lose ends. How will your story end?

15 Summary On the back cover of your book, you must write a paragraph to summarize your book. Please focus only on the important details of your story. What is your story about?

16 Rubric Children s Picture book possible points: 80 Name: #: Images Story includes at least 15 images to compliment the content. Story includes images to compliment the content. Story includes 10 or fewer images to compliment the content. Thoroughness of story Spelling, grammar, punctuation Layout and design Story includes well developed characters, setting, problem, resolution, and dialogue Story has no spelling or grammatical errors The layout and design is consistent on every page Story is not fully developed. Characters, setting, problem and resolution and dialogue not clear Story has less than 3 spelling and grammatical errors The layout and design is consistent on 80-89% of the pages Story lacks developed characters, setting, problem, solution and/or dialogue Story has more than 3 spelling and grammatical errors The layout and design is consistent on less than 79% of the pages. Font Choices 10 9 The font style and size is consistent for titles and content throughout the entire presentation The font style and size is consistent for titles and content for approximately 80-89% of the entire presentation The font style and size is consistent for titles and content for less than 79% of the entire presentation. Deadlines 10 9 Final draft is turned in on the assigned date. Student is always self-directed and on task Final draft is 1 day late. Student stays mostly on task Final draft is more than 1 day late. Student demonstrated problems staying on task Final Score:_ / 80