Following the success of the implementation of pupil SMILE books and to ensure clarity in understanding of the Curriculum for Wales, I decided to trial the SMILE book format myself, to record my planning. This helped me to develop greater depth of knowledge and understanding of the Four Purposes, Cross-Curricular Links, Pedagogical Principles and the What Matters Statements for each of the AoLEs. Smile was published as a graphic novel with eight chapters by the Graphix imprint of Scholastic Inc. in 2010. [2] Stephanie Yue did the color for the novel version of Smile. [1] Summary [ edit ] Character list [ edit ] a b c d Jiménez, Laura M., et al. "Moving Our Can(n)ons: Toward an Appreciation of Multimodal Texts in the Classroom." The Reading Teacher, vol. 71, no. 3, 2017, pp. 363-368, doi: 10.1002/trtr.1630.

The best smiles are beautiful and open. They connote happiness and good nature. Whether you’re describing a fictional character or writing a piece of creative nonfiction, these descriptions can help.The SMILE approach to learning has created a climate of trust where learners are confident to take risks without the fear of failure and are valued for their efforts. Pupils appreciate that valuable learning often results from making mistakes. I think Ruhl anticipated that the end of her memoir, people would be wanting some sort of big, satisfying conclusion (which admittedly is what I was feeling), and wrote: Somewhere in the middle, I stopped feeling quite as engaged with the story. All of the real life drama in the beginning provided a lot of interesting content, but after that, her life settled into a more steady rhythm. There are lots of little stories that were fine to read through but didn't necessarily draw me forward to the next, and in between, there was a lot of musings about faces, spirituality, illness, and more. Most of the subjects are mentioned lightly and didn't provide me with any takeaways, with the exception of the topic of faces. I'm still thinking about how it must feel like to have a face that can't express the emotion you feel, the importance we as a society place on horizontal symmetry, and all the things that a smile signifies.

Many smiles are more than simply happy or excited. A lot can happen beneath the surface. Try using adjectives that describe tone or feelings. You can describe more nuanced emotions with these words. Our vision, here at Trellech Primary, is to ensure the four purposes of the Curriculum for Wales are at the heart of our children’s learning – particularly ensuring that they are “ambitious capable learners” who: I've never had to face the condition you did as you learned to live with Bell's Palsy, and work your way through your life with an odd ?disability? feature, condition. . . .but I'm grateful to have read through this book and had my eyes opened to life with this . . .condition.I've seen and enjoyed several of Sarah Ruhl's plays, so I was excited to read her new memoir and learn more about her as a writer and a person. Smile is about Ruhl's birth of twins and subsequent onset of Bell's palsy, a condition where the face is partially paralyzed. Mostly I enjoyed the writing, the expression of feeling and emotion, the explanation of how regular life presents problems a person without the condition has ever considered. Such an eye-opener, mind-blower and description of this troubling personal catastrophe - talk about full stop! And a double whammy for those who do not return to their "normal" face. I've had one close friend who had this condition - also at the end of a pregnancy. . .but she mostly stayed hidden and away from her usual crowd until it was gone and we just heard about it in the aftermath story. And you know you are not “supposed to” want to look at her face with Bell’s Palsy, but sure, you are also human, you want to see Sarah’s face, of course, and she knows this, so this review below shows some of her smiles, but as with any memoir about a medical condition, Ruhl also shares with us the sometimes painful, sometimes amusing process of her attempts to smile again (physical therapy has done the most good for her of all solutions): Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award: Awards List.” FictionDB, 1 Feb. 2013, www.fictiondb.com/awards/2013~rebecca-caudill-young-readers-book-award~222.htm. Children's and Young Adult Literature: Nevada Young Reader Award.” UNLV University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2014, guides.library.unlv.edu/c.php?g=403811&p=2864262.

Smile is funny, sweet, endearing, deeply researched at every turn, about having twins and parenting three babies under the age of five, about postpartum depression, about celiac’s disease, about family, about her husband, children, the death of her father at the young age of 52, about how to sustain the writing life in all of this. I think that list makes the book seem unremarkable, but what makes the book shine is the quality of the writing, the humor (some people, including doctors, say--and do--the most ridiculous things!), and the warmth amid keen insights about living life with any kind of challenge. I chose this to read for a few reasons. I came down with Bell’s palsy and neuropathy in my hands after my second covid shot. I got the kind of Bell’s palsy that wasn’t so severe and lasted a couple of months and then went away. But its shown up 2 other times since for short periods. I haven’t met anyone who has also had bells palsey. I was curious what she had to say. So I was interested in how not being able to smile was for her. How she learned to adapt and change. There’s not a lot written about facing the world with a face disabily or injury. Fabulous organizations like SEVA have helped kids with clef pallets or facial birth defects face the world with a lot more ease and self care. “Our faces are what the world sees.”This was her main concern for a while.

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature". The Horn Book, Inc. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15 . Retrieved 2011-04-17. a b “Smile.” The Teacher Store, Scholastic Inc., 2022, shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/smile-9780545132060.html. In these early stages, expectations were shared and pupils were given a variety of resources to enable them to present their work in their preferred format within the books – enabling all individuals to lead, manage and present their knowledge, skills and learning independently.

She talks about just how hard her life is with her three children, how difficult it is with twins with her work as a professional playwright. The sacrifices... I see that. So? All working mothers find it tough, much tougher than she does since most of us don't have the incomes of a Broadway dramatist and a doctor. She makes a big deal over not being able to do this that and the other when she could do all of these things with an assistant, but doesn't, at least in the book, entertain that proposition. Rich people's problems! In all honesty it was a hard book to read at times. Hard to Face your face and the ways Bell’s palsy or a facial injury has impacted your life. The pain that comes when people turn away from you because we see people as their face. And with bells palsey and facial injuries there is lots of that. Often people don’t know they do so. There is a shaming there. a b Smith, Jennifer M., and Kathryn Pole. "What's Going on in a Graphic Novel?" The Reading Teacher, vol. 72, no. 2, 2018, pp. 169-177, doi: 10.1002/trtr.1695. This is a well-written memoir of living with, and through, a disability and a slow, partial recovery -- Ruhl has Bell's palsy, which renders half of the face immobile. I found it interesting from the perspective of both a disabled person and a faceblind person; her meditations on what the face means to people, and what it is like when your face doesn't match your interior, seemed like the other side of my own experience, as I am basically unsure of what every face is saying to me all the time. And her experiences with disability are, as every disability story is, both personal and universal -- there are the same horrible doctors, the same missed opportunities, the same hope and fear, but there is also, of course, her very personal, singular story. a b "Comics Made Personal." Scholastic Art, vol. 42, no. 2, 2011, pp. 8-9. ProQuest Central, Research Library.a b c d e f g h Wildsmith, Snow. “Interview: Raina Telgemeier.” Good Comics for Kids, School Library Journal, June 2010, goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2010/06/13/interview-raina-telgemeier/. Each SMILE medium-term planning book moves with the cohort of learners, exemplifying their learning journey through the school. The investment of time in medium-term planning enables staff to focus on skills development in short-term planning time. This is evident in the classroom, where lessons focus on skills development and teachers are seen as facilitators of learning. Impact on teaching and learning People like Michael J Fox have helped so many for being open and honest and showing up. I admire him and Sarah both for opening up about their illnesses and so others with them won’t feel so alone and will have more information.