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ASSIGNMENT
Project Description
Students will write and illustrate a complete children’s book appropriate for a specific age group. The project will include a polished front cover, thoughtful illustrations, and a story that engages its intended audience.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
What makes a children’s book engaging and appropriate for its intended age group?
How can illustrations complement and enhance the written narrative?
In what ways does the design of a book influence how the story is experienced by the reader?
How can digital tools help refine the creation of a professional-quality children’s book?
Big Ideas:
Big Ideas:
Writing and illustrating a children’s book requires a balance of storytelling, artistic skills, and an understanding of the audience.
Thoughtful character design, page layout, and illustrations bring a story to life.
Digital tools provide powerful resources to create professional-level designs and illustrations for publishing.
Assignment Instructions:
Story Development:
Use ChatGPT or write your own original story. If using ChatGPT, you are responsible for refining and tailoring the content.
Choose a specific age group (e.g., toddlers, preschoolers, early readers) and craft a story with an appropriate length, tone, and vocabulary.
Finalize your story’s text, ensuring it fits the word count and reading level for your chosen audience.
Storyboarding and Planning:
Create a storyboard to plan the layout of your book, including text placement and illustrations.
Ensure the storyboard accounts for pacing, narrative flow, and the relationship between text and visuals.
Decide on the number of pages, ensuring it aligns with typical children’s book formatting (e.g., multiples of 8 or 16 for printing purposes).
Character and Setting Design:
Develop your characters with model sheets that include multiple poses and expressions.
Design settings that complement the tone and themes of the story.
Create color palettes that align with the mood and target age group.
Digital Illustration and Layout:
Use digital tools (e.g., Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator) to create polished illustrations for each page.
Incorporate text into the illustrations, ensuring readability and visual balance.
Design a front cover that captures the essence of your story and attracts your target audience.
Critique and Revision:
Share your draft with peers for feedback on the story, illustrations, and layout.
Revise your work to improve clarity, engagement, and professional quality.
Final Submission:
Submit a complete children’s book, including a front cover, illustrations, and text.
Present your book to the class, explaining your creative process and how you tailored your work to the target audience.
You may either write your own story or use Chat Gpt to write one. If you use ai these prompts will help
Write a children's story about a Character(s) who does or learns something/travels somewhere in the 100 words or less in the style of XYX children's book author.
Board Book Age Group: 0 to 2 Word Count: Up to 100 Page Count: 16 pages plus Cover
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