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Journey By Aaron Becker

Oct 09, 2014

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Space by Aaron & Aiden. The sun. Our Solar System. Nine planets circle around our sun . Inner Planets. The inner planets are Mercury , Venus , Earth and Mars. VENUS. Earth . Satellites. Outer Planets.

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Aruba By: Matt and Aaron. Aruban Animals!. The Aruba Island rattlesnakes live in a 12 square mile volcanic island off the coast of Venezuela. They live among the rocky boulders and cacti. The Brown Pelican can live in the Pacific, Atlantic gulf coasts north to Nova Scotia.

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Scarcity-by Aaron GP. Scarcity-The basic concept in economics …. A resource is scarce when there is not enough available to satisfy the various ways a society wants to use it. Microeconomics is the study of individual decisions based on scarcity.

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What Plant Am I?. By Reed Aaron. I LIVE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. I LIVE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. If I LIVED IN FRESH WATER I WOULD DIE. WHAT REGION DO I LIVE IN?. You’re Right!. It has cold temperatures and is not tropical water. The water is salty.

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Online Services By Aaron Bracken

Online Services By Aaron Bracken. Services provided by the internet. Online services are services provided by the internet. There are different services provided by the internet e.g: Commerce Government Download services Education Virtual learning services Business Entertainment

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Chris Becker

Chris Becker. Multimedia Project 4/10/2011. Objectives. Identify the characteristics of the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core. Describe Earth’s land features. In this lesson the students will learn about the 3 layers of the Earth: the crust, mantel, and the core

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Paul Becker

Paul Becker. BS, Criminology, Indiana State University (1983-87) MS, Criminology, ISU (1987-89) Adult Probation Office, Elkhart (IN) City Court (1989-1992) Ph.D. Sociology, concentration in Criminology and Corrections, BGSU (1992-96)

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A beautiful wordless picture filled with adventure and wonder.  Our protagonist feels alone in the grey city that surrounds her and traps her.  She wishes to travel and to see the world and for this to happen she will have to do it for herself.  With just a swipe of chalk and a lot of imagination she travels to far away lands filled with wonder and mystery; beauty and danger.

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If a picture paints a thousand words, it’s easy to see why picture book Journey by Aaron Becker tells such a fantastical, epic tale.

With so much to look at and think about, Journey by Aaron Becker is a book that you can read on many levels. As Becker says in a mini-documentary on his website : “Each page has to answer questions from the previous spread as well as introducing whatever might be happening next”.

Taken as a whole, his illustrations provide a rich and memorable reading experience that will inspire much in the way of thinking and talking , and make a wonderful starting point for creative projects of all kinds.

What is Journey by Aaron Becker about?

A lonely girl draws a door on her bedroom wall and steps into another world. Aided by her magic crayon she travels through this strange, new place. Shifting landscapes give way to a remarkable city where there’s a villain to confront, and the girl needs all her courage and resourcefulness in order to survive.

She does, of course, and goes home with the greatest treasure of all – a friend.

In this glorious – and completely wordless – picture book, the timeless appeal of Aaron Becker’s story is more than matched by his illustrations, which crackle with so much expressive energy that readers barely notice the absence of text.

Becker worked as a designer in the film industry before creating Journey. His experience is evident in the book’s grandly conceived, yet intimately detailed, spreads.

Executed in watercolour, a demanding medium that requires a delicate balance between control and ‘letting go’, the resulting artwork is gently memorable yet utterly compelling.

Carey Fluker Hunt is Creative Projects Manager at Seven Stories , the National Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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This wonderful book follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey … who knows where?

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

• Use the title as the starting point for your own story. What might your own story about a ‘Journey’ include?
• Look at the illustrations on the front, back and inside covers. Discuss what you think it might be about.
• As you explore the illustrations in the book, try to find features that might be clues about the rest of the story.
• Think of your own captions, speech / thought bubbles to add to the illustrations.
• Make a word bank that includes words you could use to describe the people, places and events in the story.
• Create a narrative version of the story. Could you turn it into a playscript?
• Imagine that you had a pen that could be used to draw (and create) real objects. What would you draw? Could you write a new story based on this concept?
• Write a character profile about the girl. What do you know about her? How would you describe her?
• Retell the story from the girl’s point of view. Could you write a diary entry for her?
• Write a prequel to this story that explains where the magic red pen came from. Who owned it before the girl? Who made it? Why does it have special powers?
• Choose one of the settings in the story. How would you describe it?
• Write a newspaper article about a girl who goes missing through a magical doorway in her bedroom.
• Write a newspaper article about the girl who arrived in the city in a red boat.
• Stop reading when the girl first arrives at the city. Should she go in? Why (not)? Share your thoughts with others and vote on what you think should happen next.
• Why is the purple bird being hunted by the people?

• Create a game in which a girl has to rescue a special purple bird.
• Create a video that shows the illustrations in the book and is accompanied by your own narration / speech.
• Watch this trailer for the book. Could you use multimedia software to create your own book trailer?

Design Technology

• Create a model of one of the airships in the illustrations.
• Imagine that you could draw a magic door from your classroom / bedroom wall into another world. Draw the view to the other side.
• Create a picture that shows what the girl can see at your favourite point in the story.
• Could you create an additional page (or group of pages) that tells a different part of the story? Could you draw a sequel to this book?
• The illustrations were created using watercolour paints. Can you try to paint using a similar style?
• Look at the different characters in the story. Can you create your own illustrations of them? This video has some tips from the author / illustrator:

• Compose a theme tune to accompany a movie version of this story.
• Draw a map of the city the girl encounters.
• How many different forms of transport can you find in the book?
• Imagine that you had a flying carpet. Where would you travel to? Why?
• Plan your own ‘Journey’. Where will you go? How will you get there? What will you need to take?
• Find out about famous journeys, explorers and expeditions from history.

Religious education

• Why do people sometimes go on special journeys as part of their religion? Can you find out more about these?
• Look at the body language of the characters in the illustrations. What might they be thinking / feeling? How can you tell?

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Using Journey for a cross-curricular book project

This resource will support you to use the wordless picture book Journey by Aaron Becker as part of a whole school project.

The resource contains differentiated cross-curricular activities for Early, First and Second levels, adaptable to use as part of a whole school core book project, and includes ideas to support:

• Creative writing
• Expressive arts: art, drama and music
• Health and wellbeing
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Digital technology
• Skills for learning: visual literacy

Wordless picture books are a great starting point for a whole school project, as they are accessible to all learners. If you are new to using wordless picture books, you can find more ideas and support in our using wordless picture books resource .

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BOOKS JOURNEY

A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart’s desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all.

“Though Becker has plenty of experience as an artist for films, “Journey” is his first book, and it’s a masterwork.” — New York Times Book Review

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© 2013-2024 Aaron Becker All Rights Reserved.

Journey: A Beautiful Wordless Story About the Power of the Imagination

By maria popova.

In this wonderful short film, Becker cracks open his creative process and invites us in for a peek:

There’s a delicate balance between controlling what you’re doing and … letting it go.

Journey is absolutely wonderful and bewitching in its entirety.

Images copyright © 2013 by Aaron Becker. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.

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A writing root for journey.

KS: Lower KS2, R & KS1, Upper KS2

Year Group: Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Literary Theme: Coming together & community

Author(s): Aaron Becker

"The most fantastic way to launch the year: our whole primary school is excited to write."

Anna Chidzey, whole school, British International School Riyadh

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Predictions, retellings in role, maps, posters, a travel diary, instructions and a story sequel.

10+ sessions, 2+ weeks

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This is a two-week Whole School Writing Root for Journey by Aaron Becker. The resource has been designed to be used by an entire school to foster a shared learning experience around one text and to engender written outcomes – some with the same audiences and purposes, some not – that are ‘at pitch’ for each phase/stage but that will also aid revision, catch-up and extension where (and in whichever form) needed. We have planned for activities at 3 stages: Reception with Year 1; Year 2 with Year 3 and then Year 4 to Year 6. The resource is intended to form the basis upon which schools and teachers can create and shape a sequence of learning that will work within their context.  The sessions could be added to with art activities and through further learning in PSHE, Science, Geography and History.

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The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey ... who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all...

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UPDATED FOR 2023 A great writing project to allow children to learn GPS while writing a wonderful story. Great for catch up and will last weeks. You don’t need the book as the PPT has it all.

38 slides (to accompany the book Journey). Each slide has a different focus.

A step by step approach that introduces all aspects of the writing assessment criteria including: • creating atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action • using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs sentences and paragraphs • using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately • using a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence • using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases effectively to add detail, qualification and precision • using mostly correctly: inverted commas commas for clarity punctuation for parenthesis • making some correct use of: semi-colons dashes colons hyphens • semi-colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses • colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses

This was a real labour of love. Enjoy.

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I had the previous version of this ppt. It's really easy to follow and covers lots of bases. There are a number of errors/typos though that need sorting before use with children.

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Hello - I have now managed to download this resource and am very grateful I could as it is very detailed and clear for the children to follow. Thank you for helping resolve this & for providing the resource!

Fantastic resource, very detailed and progressive to aid the children with their thought processes and writing skills. Thanks for sharing.

This is a fabulous resource that will bring out the best in your pupil's writing. Highly recommended! Thank you Andrew.

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A bored and lonely child picks up a red colouring stick and draws a small door on her bedroom wall – then walks through it into a luminous forest lit with blue Chinese lanterns, golden strings of fairy lights and numerous fireflies. Running through the forest is a stream. So, using her red crayon, the girl draws herself a boat and climbs in. Gradually she drifts into the watery highway of a vast and complex castle, peopled with fierce guards. As she makes her escape difficulties beset her, but she cleverly draws a solution to overcome each challenge. Eventually the girl rescues an exotic purple bird that guides her through another small door, which leads her back into her home city.