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Floca, B. (2013). Locomotive. Atheneum.
This Caldecott award winner follows a family as they travel west on the transcontinental railroad. It has many examples of onomatopoeias, as well as personification (the train).
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Library/Classroom Use: This text is an exemplar of how words and illustrations can communicate different information, yet work together artistically. For middle elementary students, I would use the maps to pivot into a study of westward expansion and the transcontinental railroad. For primary students, creating a classroom A-Z book with vocabulary (railroad) words from the story could be an extension. Floca discusses his writing process and how he adjusted his story midway when he found factual information about the time period that did not work in his story (see this article for more information).
Library/Classroom Use: This text is an exemplar of how words and illustrations can communicate different information, yet work together artistically. For middle elementary students, I would use the maps to pivot into a study of westward expansion and the transcontinental railroad. For primary students, creating a classroom A-Z book with vocabulary (railroad) words from the story could be an extension. Floca discusses his writing process and how he adjusted his story midway when he found factual information about the time period that did not work in his story (see this article for more information).
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