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Literature Links for Intermediate
You Can't Take a Balloon into the National Gallery
- You Can't Take a Balloon into the National Gallery
written by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Glasser
- Stories told through pictures alone can be a springboard for developing oral language skills and writing original stories. This is a very clever story without words. Since the balloon is not allowed inside the gallery, an adventure unwinds in Washington, D.C. Watch for the many historical figures in the book.
Activity:
After reading several wordless books, give students a digital camera to capture their school day. Insert the pictures into a slideshow to view as a wordless book. Then ask the students to write a sentence or two about the picture on each slide.
Additional Books and Websites:
- The Red Book by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
- Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion Books, 2006)
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007)
- Free Resources for using wordless picture books from Family Literacy
* published by Puffin, 2001
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