Re-Zoom

I am a retired teacher who volunteers in a kindergarten classroom. All children want to be able to read as soon as they come to school. But the process is difficult for many children. By the time they master the multiple skills of learning to read, they are not as motivated to continue the process. I found out that children who are vocal, love to talk about their favorite parts of stories that have been read to them. Children love to articulate about a favorite picture in a book and their imagination is amazing. Wordless books give many of these children an outlet to express their versions of the story.

I first found this after using the original Zoom book. Once I realize how much I loved the original, I knew I needed the next version. This one is really good for my 8th grade groups and could be great for even older students and team building with adults! I am a middle school counselor and can’t recommend these books enough!

Separated the pages and split my team up in to small groups. Gave them minimal direction for putting the pages in order. They get to work together and then combine the groups to put entire book together as a whole team.They loved it, then I told them the age recommendation for the book. That got a few more laughs.I am sure it would be great to discuss the pages with a small child, but it works great for team building too.

This is a gorgeous book; you can keep looking at the images for a long time and see new things. I actually use the book in class; I teach a subject that required a non-linear perspective, but rather I have to get the students to see things from a Macro to Micro perspective, not in a this happens then this happens. This book has been very successful in helping that process to occur. I actually disassemble the book, laminate the pages, and can adjust for it groups taking out some of the pages for the activity. I will not allow the students to show one another the pages, but instead, they have to describe what they think is important. Most students, based on how they have been taught to think, will describe the scene in terms of events of what is occurring, giving little emphasis to the detail of the images. Instead, about ten minutes in I let the students know that sometimes a story does not start where they think it starts; some cultures value emphasis on events or things over being linear. Then, after a bit more time, I let the students know the name of the book; which clues them in a little bit. Finally, I let the students show one another the pages, which they then put in order pretty quickly.It’s a great activity to teach perspective. A lot of times we are trained to see things a certain way, but not all people and cultures are that way. This book is great for that type of activity and lesson to teacher. It’d also work well with one’s own child, even trying to guess what happens next in the story.

I teach middle school science. I used this book in an activity I learned at a PD. It was a hit with the kids. I also bought his book Zoom.

I used this as an adult team building activity. It required me to take the pages out of the book and laminate them. I made copies of the story in order and put them face down - taped to a table. Distributed the laminated pages to the 20 employees and their assignment was to put the story in order. We did this with a smaller group a few years back using Zoom. My only complaint about this one, is it did not seem to flow as effortlessly as the first one. It did a great job for our discussion about teams, leadership, involving everyone, etc. This one is good, but I do think the other one was a tad better. I am unaware of any other stories like these which is too bad because for team building they are very good. It is a time consuming preparation and you need to allow 20 -30 mins for the team to discuss and assemble.

I attended a workshop at the Yale Center for British Art and there were many excellent activities for teachers to use in their classrooms. One of the exercises involved the ZOOM book. I did a search to see if there were any others and discovered this one. It is useful to develop students' organizational and observational skills as well as getting them to work together to solve a problem they have never seen before!I cut out the pages and will laminate them to distribute to my classes. Then let them use the class period to work together to place the pictures in order They can ZOOM out or ZOOM in! It's a great way to engage all learners and make math fun!

I used this book for my AP Seminar class to teach team building. The students loved “putting the book together” so much that they asked if I have another one. It’s a great activity to strengthen team building skills.

Fun icebreaker book. Watch utube video on how to use as ice breaker. Great.

Each colourful picture tells a story of its own, but when put together, a larger picture and a more complex story is formed.

Re-ZoomはZoomの姉妹本。初めて会う不慣れな人たちとの会話や交流の道具として、この絵本を活用する機会にたちあった。連関する絵をバラして活用している。

Good but not as good as the original Zoom!

ズームも持っています。知人にも紹介しようと部屋を発掘したら、７～８年くらい前に購入していたため、傷キズで他人に見せられないので、今回の購入の動機です。日本語版が絶版だったので、これを注文しました。この類の本は文字は一切関係ないので、新本が手元に戻ってきた感じです。少し薄い紙を使っていますが内容に問題はありません。