We've been reading lots of stories by author and illustrator Kevin Henkes recently. Over the last few days, we've notices noticed certain parts of his writing and illustrations appear in many of his books. This week, Ms. Riley told us those things we'd been noticing are part of Kevin Henkes' craft. His craft involves anything he does on purpose to make his writing look or sound a certain way. It is the art of writing!
We've read lots of Kevin Henkes books together as a class, and we began to notice that he frequently includes mouse characters in his stories, characters with "rock brain", repeating lines, multiple pictures on a page, speech bubbles in illustrations, and lots of dialogue. Some of his books even have some of the same exact characters, like a series!
After reading lots of his stories together as a class, we then set off to read his stories and notice his craft with our reading partners. We looked through lots of different Kevin Henkes stories, and while he didn't always use the same craft in every story, there were always at least a few!
We will continue to read Kevin Henkes stories over the next few weeks, and we will even get the opportunity to write like Kevin Henkes ourselves and develop our own Author Craft! Stay tuned :)
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