Comparing Picture Books to Movies – an assignment for time off

With so many students out of school right now and teachers scrambling to continue the education process or parents looking for things to keep their children engaged – here’s an idea that may be fairly easy to implement. Have your children read picture books and then watch the movie about that book and write a brief comparison between the two.

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A Day with Wilbur Robinson (The World of William Joyce) and Meet the Robinsons

The Cat in the Hat and the movie

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and the movie

Curious George and the movie

Horton Hears a Who! and the movie

Shrek! and the movie

Where the Wild Things Are and the movie

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and the movie

The Story of Ferdinand and the movie

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