How many wordless books do you have in your personal library? How often do you allow your students to become the storyteller?

Wordless books present significant opportunities for the reader to explore the illustrations in a text and construct their own meaning from the images to create their own story. Even students who struggle with reading can successfully read a wordless book.  Wordless books are great for developing the critical skills of comprehension, vocabulary and visual literacy. Students can be encouraged to add detail about the setting, characters and plot to help build their storytelling skills. Different character’s point of view can be explored, along with studying the comprehension skills of visualising and predicting. Wordless books can be used in all classes K-6 as students of all ages can enjoy and benefit from them. Wordless books encourage the use of imagination and are fantastic to stimulate writing and class discussions.

Some great wordless book I can recommend include:   

• Chalk by Bill Thomson

  
  

• The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

  
  

• Flotsam by David Wiesner

  
  

• The Arrival by Shaun Tan

  
  

• Mirror by Jeannie Baker

  
  

• The Flower Man by Mark Ludy

  
  

• Leaf by Stephen Michael King

  
  

• The Secret Box by Barbara Lehman

  
  

• More by Peter Schossow

  
  

• Sunshine by Jan Ormerod

  
  

• Flashlight by Lizi Boyd

  
  

• Wave by Suzy Lee

  
  

• Tuesday by David Weisner

  
  

• Journey by Aaron Becker

  
  

Have you come across any wonderful wordless books? Can you suggest any to our readers? Leave your comments below