The learnings I took away from the first assessment task have been extremely beneficial, not only as a future teacher librarian but as a current teacher.

I have always loved picture books and for this assessment I decided to focus on picture books for older children.  I am amazed by how much I learnt and I am excited to share this with colleagues of mine.  I am surprised that I was not aware of some of the features of picture books as I don’t think I had thought enough about the textures, colours and sizing of pictures and placement of text enough.  I was always aware of these but had never explicitly discussed these with my students and I believe I should have invested more of my own time in learning about visual comprehension.

I strongly believe that features of picture books is an area which should be explicitly taught in all year levels and as a result I believe there will be such great improvements across the entire curriculum.  Firstly, children will be more engaged with reading, secondly children will have greater literacy and problem solving skills and thirdly children will have the ability to make inferences regarding the text and textual features.

What a fabulous assessment piece that will make me a better teacher and hopefully inspire children further with their reading.