All the World

All the World

Written by:  Liz Garton Scanlon

Illustrated by: Marla Frazee
Published by: Beach Lane Books 2009
Grade Levels: K-2

Genre: Poetry, Picture Book

2010 Caldecott Medal Honor Book

Synopsis: This book follows a brother and a sister through the day and night starting at the beach. It takes them on a summer day from building sandcastles to going to the farmers market, on a walk, a pavilion, getting soaked in the rain, to a cafe, to home where the fire is on, people dance and sing, and they settle for bed just like you and me. The family in this book experience many diverse situations as they encounter different aspects of the world. It allows readers to appreciate different aspects of the world, including night and day, warm, cold, rain or shine, etc. and shows readers that they are a part of the world in every way. 

Theme/Skill: World, Human Kind, We are part of the Universe.It uses rhyming couplets and it makes connections between words and images.

About the Author: Liz Garton Scanlon

Elizabeth Garton-Scanlon, known by many as Liz, grew up in Colorado and Wisconsin.  She is well known as an author and a teacher.  She is the author of books such as, A Sock is a Pocket For Your Toes, Noodle and Lou, and All the World, a Caldecott Honor Book in 2010.  Liz loves Mexican food, hiking, and live music.  She currently is an adjunct professor of creative writing at Austin Community College and lives with her family in Austin, Texas. 

Source used:  http://www.lizgartonscanlon.com/about_me.html

Pre-Reading Activities:  Brainstorm a list of things that children do on the weekend and record them on sentence strips.  Then after each child has answered and the sentence strips are placed on the board, allow children to come up one by one and place their strip under one of the categories, either activities that cost money or things that don't. 

Lead into the book, by telling students to play close attention as you walk through the book to see if any of their activities they do are also in the book.  First do a picture walk through of the book.  Point out on the cover, the title, author, and illustrator.  Have students brainstorm what they think the book is about just by hearing the title and seeing what illustrations are on it.  Then as you go through the pictures in the book, ask students if they have done any of the activities in teh book or if they have mentioned any of these already in our sort.  Then read the book out loud to the whole-group. 

 
Post-Reading Activities: 

This book will be used as the main focus of different centers for that day.  There will be three centers, one guided by the teacher and the other two that are independently run by the students.  The teacher will first explain all the centers and make sure students understand before having them go off on their own. 

Activity 1:  Teacher led:  Have the children have individual books to read.  We will look at different pages and have the children sound out the words and follow along as other children read.  “All the world’s a garden bed.”  “Everything you hear, smell, see,..”  We will go more in depth of what each page is asking.  We will look at the five senses and see what we hear, smell, see, taste, touch if we were in this picture.  We will also use our own example such as lunch time and divide things up into each sense by making a chart.   During this time we will look at the five senses but also practice decoding and fluency of material for the students in the group. 

Activity 2:  Independently run: Students will cut out words and sort them under each sound that it goes with.  The sounds the words will be sorted into will be: -ing, -s, -ll.  They will go back through the book and look for words that end with these.  Then they will have a piece of paper with pictures and words that end with these and they will have to cut them up and sort them under the column as well if they have time. 

Activity 3:  Independently Run:  Children will color a picture of a boy or girl to represent themselves.  They will cut this out of themselves and write across their shirt one way they show love.  An aid will be there to help them sound out what they want to say.  These pictures will be placed around a huge earth that will be placed on the bulletin that will say:  “All the World is All of Us.” –by Liz Garton Scanlon, We “Show Love in All Different Ways!”

Link to Activities to do pre/post reading: 

Reflection:  I love the use of the watercolors and black Prismacolor pencil throughout the book in the illustrations.I think that using a white background as the canvas makes readers focus on the illustrations at hand and look at every single one as the words are being read. I like how the illustrations follow along with the words and allow young readers who are just beginning to learn how to read learn to follow along and eventually be able to read it by themselves. Even if they are unable to read they can create a story that is similar to the one presented by looking at the pictures.