Picture Books for Teaching Literary Structure & Concepts
alliteration Alison Lester's ABC
inferring, journal format Diary of Wombat (Jackie French)
onomatopoeia, positional language Waddle Giggle Gargle! (Pamela Allen)
onomatopoeia, positional language, adjectives We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Helen Oxenbury)
adjectival phrases, volume, weight/mass Who Sank the Boat? (Pamela Allen)
narrative structure, moral, inferring Aesop's Fables
adjectival phrases, narrative structure This is the Bear and the Scary Night (Sarah Hayes)
different habitats Imagine (Alison Lester)
seasons, progress of time, past tense My Farm (Alison Lester)
imagination, visualisation, present tense Magic Beach (Alison Lester)
adjectival phrases, similes, rhyme Hairy MacLary from Donaldson's Dairy
metaphors You've Got Dragons
volume, mass
friendship Sunday Chutney, The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley