A Book for Primary Grade Students - Coursework Example

As the paper discusses Mickey finds himself fallen in a night kitchen where three fat bakers are baking a cake for the morning. Mickey falls into the jug of milk and is accidentally kneaded into the cake dough after which the bakers put him into the oven. Somehow, Mickey manages to come out of the dough and feels sorry that he has spoiled the cake. He, then, makes an airplane of the dough and flies outside the oven into a bottle of milk where he pours the milk into the dough when its covering crumbles up.

The bakers are happy that the cake came out perfect. Mickey, then magically returns to his bedroom into his bed, and pleasurably thinks about the delightful experiences that he had in the night kitchen. The aim behind summarizing the story is to explain how the content is well suited to be studied by a primary grader. Every one of us has his own unique good or bad style of learning new things. Teachers need to understand different learning styles in order to improve learning, especially student learning, because learning styles have a practical application in education and training.

The organization of this book is perfect who is a visual learner, that is, a student whose learning preferences include visual aids with which he can make an imagination of the story plot within his mind. This study outlines that the pictures and comics that the author has made use of are interesting pieces of visual aids that can help a student with visual learning style. Thus, the language used is figurative. “The succession of images occur in such a way, that when we are given the full view of the scene, it seems as if Mickey has literally broken the forth wall of the comics panel and come zooming out into the open”.

The cartoon-like artwork of Sandek has, on one hand, made the story bolder and, on the other, maintained the students’ grasp upon the plot of the story as well by keeping the shades and coloring of the images less intense. The emphases has been more on the story than the images which strengthens the students’ comprehension because they look at images as a helping part of the story rather than looking at story as a part of the comic images. The lettering and wording that Sandek has used make it special for children because the words used are simple that are easy for the students to encode and decode, thus enabling the students learn decoding the word and encoding it comfortably.

Also, the rhythm of the words selected is like a song which that student will enjoy who has auditory type learning style. Such a student learns by listening to the utterance of the sound of the word, and comprehends it. Hence, the book is great not only for visual but also for auditory learning style preferences. Moreover, this book can also prove a great guide for a student who lacks writing skills since the teacher can tell him to look at the picture and write down how the image relates to the story, or can tell him to read the story and write it down in simple words.