Creating Bozo Books

Many students need challenges in comprehension more than in the mechanics of reading. To build comprehension skills, have students challenge each other with "Bozo Books." Working in the My Book area, change parts of the text so that the meaning of text and picture no longer coincide. Students can demonstrate their comprehension of the text by detecting and fixing the incongruities. The can "fix" the incongruities either by changing the text so that it supports the picture or by changing the picture so that it supports the text. Students are challenged to read carefully and understand.

Procedure

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Use the My Book section to create a new version of a WiggleWorks book--a "Bozo Book." First, demonstrate how to alter the My Book text by highlighting it and typing over it.

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Have students take turns altering each page of a WiggleWorks book in some fashion that makes the pictures and the text incongruent. In this example, the text has been changed from "The moose brought juice and a bucket of ice," to "The goose brought juice and a bucket of ice."

After creating Bozo Books, have students find the Bozo parts and fix them. Students can work in pairs to create Bozo books and challenge each other to discover all the incongruities.

WiggleWorks Areas Used

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