Craft Lesson for Put Me in The Zoo

Lopshire, Robert. Put Me in the Zoo A Book of Colors. New York: Random House 1960

This is a great book to use in Kindergarten. The children could read aloud this book to you eventually based on the pictures in the book. This a book that I would use a the end of the year. I would make an transparency of each page of the book and read the story to the children and have them tell me the colors of the animals spots. I will let the children create the own version on the story we will make our own book and the children will decide the spots for the animal. This is based on Teks 110.2

Craft lesson for Zoom

Banyai, Istvan. Zoom. New York: Puffin Books, 1998.



This is a book that could be used with a 3rd or 4th grade class. As a class we would read aloud ( or discuss) the first half of the book. On the page where you see that that each picture ends up being a detail on a poster on the side of the bus. The children will then be asked to write or draw their own ending based on their knowledge of the flow of the book. This is based off of Teks 110.6 for the class to have the ability to interpret visual images to draw an conclusion

Zoom

Banyai, Istvan. Zoom. New York: Puffin Books, 1998.

This was a very challenging picture book each time you turn the page it's a different adventure. I enjoyed this book from the first time that I picked it up and tried to make up my own words to each picture. Every time that you look at it, another detail jumps out and changes your thoughts. The black page is great it gives one the ability to focus and to collect your thoughts on whats coming next .

Children's Literature, Briefly Chapter 17

Tunnell, Michael O. and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. 4e. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008

This is a great chapter on giving one ideas on how to motivate children to read. This was the one chapter that I think that will influence my teaching. This chapter gives great suggestions on things to do in you classroom to get children to read. Also the ideas discussed in class on how to get parents involved in what the children are read was also great.

Children's Literature Briefly Chapter 16

Tunnell, Michael O. and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. 4e. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008

After reading and discussing this chapter in class, there are many different things that we each have a fear if teaching. There are many books that are controversial and they will a challenge to teach. Each book that I will use in my classroom will be read a few times just to make sure its appropriate for my class

Read Aloud Journal

Read Aloud Journal

The only child that I have contact with is my 3 year old nephew. I decided to read a book that was base on the grade level that I wanted to teach and a book that was appropriate for his age. Trying to read to a 3 year old is a challenge of its own. I attempted to read Oh the Places You Will Go. Getting past the title page and the inside cover was a challenge; this alone took about ten minutes. He was more interested in talking about the maze on the inside page than anything. As I started read the book he would ask to go back the “grass” (the maze in the inside covers). I attempted to read the book to him and he continues to say wait and turned the page back to the inside cover. He did not care for the illustrations in this book. He would often say that the characters in the book scared him. After about 20 minutes of trying to read this book to him I gave up. When then has a discussion about the maze in the inside cover on where are they going to. I then read Put Me in the Zoo a Book of Colors he enjoyed this book and I could read the entire book to him a couple of times. He enjoyed telling me the colors of the animal’s spots when he changed them 0n each page. My nephew even read the book to me a couple of times before the day was over. Having age appropriate books are important to capture a child’s attention to have them engaged in the text.

Craft Lesson for Stuart's Cape

Pennypacker, S. Stuart's Cape. Illus. Martin Matje. New York NY: Scholastic/Orchard Books, 2002

This is a wonder book that I would save for a read aloud at the end of the year. Throughout the year I would collect different items for the children to make their own capes. As a class we will discuss the adventures that they will have over the summer and the adventures of going to the next grade. This is a great way to get the children to use their imagination, each child will write their own description of their adventure. This lesson will be for a 2nd or 3rd grade class based on Teks 110.4