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Mueller 1 Chelsea Mueller ELD 307: Emergent Literacy Professor Rich January 19, 2013 Childrens Literature Exploration

Theme: Farm Animals Books: Gurman, Saran and Kavanaugh, Missy. Farm Animals. New York: Sandy Creek, 2009. Tickle, Jack. Funny Farm. New York: Sandy Creek, 2012. Jordan, Mary Ellen and Welden, Andrew. Lazy Daisy, Cranky Franky. Australia: Albert Whitman & Company, 2011. Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Lester, Alison. Noni the Pony. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Gibbons, Gail. Pigs. New York: Holiday House, 1999. Clark, Leslie Ann. Peepsqueak Wants a Friend! New York: HarperCollins, 2013. Allen, Jonathan. The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say MOO. New York: Sterling Publishing, 2008. Schertle, Alice. Little Blue Truck. Illustrated by Jill McElmurry. Orlando: Harcourt, 2008. Cowley, Joy. Mrs. Wishy-Washys Farm. Illustrated by Elizabeth Fuller. New York: Philomel Books, 2003.

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Farm Animals (Non Fiction)


By: Missy Kavanaugh and Sarah Gurman Grade: Kindergarten
Farm animals is a picture book with real photography throughout the book of the animals. The animals that are mentioned are horses, cows, goats, ducks, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and pigs. Each animal has a description of either what they look like or what they like to do. Standard: RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Objective: The students will be able to reenact story events. First, by looking at the cover of the book the students will be able to predict what the story will be about. They will also share personal experiences related to either animals in general or farms specifically in order to make connections to the text prior to reading. Students will be directed to pay attention to what the animals do. Next, the teacher will read the book aloud to the class. Following the reading the teacher will hold up a stick puppet of each animal and the students will elicit the action taken by each of the animals in the story. In order to make the text meaningful to the students they will be involved in several activities. The students will be asked to imitate the actions taken by each animal. They will also be asked if they know of people who act the same way as the animals do. After reading a class chart will be developed with the students showing a picture of the animal, its name in written words, and the action that it takes in the story. This chart will be used as a reference during the activities to correlate the written word with the student activities. These activities support literacy development by actively engaging students in activities that directly relate to the text. By having the students relate the actions of the animals to people

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that they know allows them the opportunity to see the relationship between the written word and real life experiences

Picture

Animal
Horse Cow Goats

Action
Runs Rests Nosy

Ducks

Waddle

Chicken

Strut

Turkey

Show Feathers

Sheep

Gather

Pigs

Sleep

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Funny Farm(Fiction)
By: Jack Tickle Grade: Kindergarten
Funny Farm is a book with pop up animals. Each animal comes with a description of the sounds they make. This book mentions a rooster who loves the mornings, a pig who rolls in the mud, a donkey who eats thistle, a sheep who skips to and fro, a cow who grazes in the flowers, and a sheepdog who watches over all of the animals. Standard: RF.K.2a Recognize and produce rhyming words. RF.K.3a Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. RL.K.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. RF.K.2e Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Objective: Students will be able to recognize rhyming words in a story. First, show the students the cover of the book and tell them the title of the story along with the author. Hold up the previous book Farm Animals and ask the students how they think the books will be alike. Then, ask how they think the stories will be different. Prompt the students until the following points are discussed: The book Farm Animals has a true life picture of animals on the cover, while the book Funny Farm has an animated illustration. The title of the book Farm Animals lets you know that it is factual; while the title of Funny Farm lets the students know ahead of time that this book may be fictional.

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Rhyming Words
LookBook NewDoo GiggleWriggle LongSong FroHello ChewMoo BarkDark NightTight

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Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie(Fiction)


By: Mary Ellen Jordan and Andrew Weldon Grade: Kindergarten-1
This book is about all of the farm animals and how they do what they are not supposed to do. The cow does not eat grass, instead she eats jelly. The pig does not roll in the mud; she looks at herself in a mirror. The chicken does not lay eggs because she is too busy dancing around in her underwear. There is also a dog who watches TV rather than chasing sheep. The only time that they animals do what they should is at night when they sleep. Standards: W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...). Objective: Students will be able to create a silly sentence based on the actions of a farm animal with an included illustration. The teacher will introduce this book by telling the students that it is another rhyming book about animals on a farm. To build the anticipatory set the students will be told that the animals behave differently than we would expect them to. Give the students a purpose for reading by asking them to listen to how each animal behaves and think about how the animal should behave. The teacher will then read the book aloud. The class will chart the names of the animals and tell how they should behave and how they did behave. Then have the students add names of animals to the chart that are also found on a farm and how they should behave. The students will use a teacher made handout to create their own silly sentence and illustrate it. The finished products will be bound into a class book entitled Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie Continued.

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This activity connects to literacy development because the students will be adding originally created pages to a book. It shows them that they can be authors too.

Animal
Cow

Pig Chicken Dog

Should Behave Eat grass Like Mud Lay eggs Chase sheep

Actually Behaves Eats jelly Looks in mirror Dances Watches TV

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Name: _____________________

My animal is a ___________________________________. It should ___________________________ on the farm, but instead it __________________________________.

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Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type (Fiction)


By: Doreen Cronin Pictures by: Betsy Lewin Grade: Kindergarten
Farmer Brown has a farm with cows, hens and ducks. These animals type notes to Farmer Brown and post them outside of the barn. The different notes to the farmer are about the cows not giving milk until they get electric blankets. The hens also want electric blankets so they do not give eggs. The ducks are the peace keepers and decide to tell Famer Brown that they will get the type writer from the cows if he gives the cows electric blankets. Farmer Brown gives electric blankets and the ducks keep the type writer because they want a diving board. Standards: L.K.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts. Objective: The students will be able to write notes based in an informal friendly letter format. Students will be able to compare technology today to past technologies for the same outcome. First, students will look at the cover and try to figure out what the cows are looking at. After they give their predictions the teacher will tell them that it is something called a typewriter. It has letter keys on it that when pressed will allow words to appear on paper. Ask the class to break into small groups to determine what we use today that would do the same thing. Have the students share their responses and then read to find out why the cows are huddled around the typewriter on the cover illustration. After reading, discuss the answer to the question. Then tell the students that they are going to become Farmer Brown and write their own letter in response to the animals. While modeling the proper friendly letter format students will create a class letter.

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It will be dictated by the students and recorded by the teacher. The students will then write a one sentence letter to a family member asking them for something. This activity will help with literacy development by showing students that writing is a form of communication.

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Noni the Pony(Fiction)


By: Alison Lester Grade: Kindergarten
Noni is a pony who lives on a farm and likes to gallop around. Noni has two best friends Dave Dog and Coco the cat. They play hide-and-seek and jump around the creek. Noni is nice to her friends and always brightens their days. Noni is never frightened except sometimes at night. When Noni gets scared her friends Dave Dog and Coco the cat come and lay with her.

Standards: RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. RL.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts). Objective: Students will be able to create a paper doll friendship chain that tells the qualities of a good friend.

Talk to the class about who is their friend and why they like them. Tell them we are going to read a story today about two friends that help one another. Read to find out how they help each other. After reading the book students will dictate to the teacher qualities that are important to being a good friend. The teacher will record these qualities on one side of a paper doll. Then the students will decorate the other side to represent their friend. Each child can share their doll with the class and talk about the quality they chose. When they are finished presenting the teacher will hang up the dolls around the classroom.

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This connects to literacy development because it helps them see that spoken language correlates to written language. It will also show that in books illustrations are used to highlight the written text and what they are doing highlights their own words that have been written about their illustrations.

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Pigs(Non-fiction)
By: Gail Gibbons Grade: 2-3
This book Pigs is a critical literacy book that teaches the students all about pigs. First it describes what the common thoughts are about pigs. The book talks about the history of pigs and where they came from. It also discusses different breeds and the basic characteristics of pigs. The names of pigs; such as before a female pig has a baby and after, and the name of a male pig are talked about. Also, what pigs do on farms and their behaviors are discussed. To go along with farms, it mentions where pigs will live on farms and their different kinds of housing. Piglets and their development are also discussed. Lastly, the uses of pigs are mentioned.

Standards: RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. Objective: Students will be able to use context clues to determine the meaning of a word.

This book is going to be placed in a center for two to three days prior to reading. A sticky notepad will be made available to students at the center. Students will be directed to visit the center upon completing their work and to skim through the pages of the book. Each child will be given page numbers from which they can find four words that they are unfamiliar with. When the students find a word that they are not familiar with they will record the following on the sticky note: 1. Their name 2. The page number 3. The unknown word

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4. The sentence the word is used in 5. What they think the word might mean 6. Explain why they think that might be the meaning of the word The students will place the note in a box located next to the book. Prior to reading, the teacher will separate the sticky notes and group together all of the words that students had in common. Students will then meet in collaborative groups and discuss/share their predictions as to what the word means and why. Then as a class they will listen to the book being read by the teacher. The list of words will be discussed again as they appear in the reading. At that point, the remainder of the class will have the opportunity to share what they believe the word means and the class will come to a consensus as to the meaning of the word. This activity will help support literacy development by using context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words when presented in independent reading activities.

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Peepsqueak Wants a Friend!(Fiction)


By: Leslie Ann Clark Grade: Kindergarten-1
Peepsqueak Wants a Friend is about a chick named Peepsqueak who is looking all around for a friend. This is a math related book, because the children are being introduced to pairs. Throughout the book each animal Peepsqueak encounters is a pair and has a friend. Peepsqueak sees chicks, hedgehogs, red birds, raccoons, a giant foot prints. Peepsqueak goes into the cave where the foot prints are leading. Then, Peepsqueak goes back to the barnyard with his new friend, a bear. He realizes that now they make two which is a pair. Standards: K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Objective: Students will be able identify characters encountered by the main character Peepsqueak in the story.

First the students will discuss as a class what kind of friend they think Peepsqueak is looking for. Then as the story is read students will be listening to determine who Peepsqueak meets and if they become his friend. After reading the teacher will discuss how many of something makes a pair, what are things that come in pairs and as they go the teacher will record their responses. Remind students that Peepsqueak thought that friends only come in pairs, but at the end he learned that you can have more than one friend. This fact will then be used to demonstrate a simple math equation how 1 person + 1 person = 2 people (The pair). It will be further demonstrated through the use of story text that just like friends dont always come in just twos, that numbers can be joined together to make larger groups as well. A simple number sentence will be shown on the board and the answer will be determined by the class. Students

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will then be encouraged to then create their own number sentences by using manipulatives. Then they will record their number sentences on paper. This activity supports literacy development by making connections between math and their reading. It will also allow them to see that stories are a combination of the actions of one or more characters.

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The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say MOO(Fiction)


By: Jonathan Allen Grade: Kindergarten
This book is about a rabbit on a farm who says Moo. A calf asks him why he says Moo since he is not a cow and the rabbit tells him because he likes it and that rabbits dont make a big noise. Then he decides to say baa because he likes it. Then he meets a lamb, this continues with a piglet, a baby donkey, and a duckling. All of the animals say that their sound that they make is their favorite and the rabbit says that WOOF! is its favorite. Standards: RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Objective: Students will be able to identify initial consonant sounds and create words containing the given consonant. Students will be able to identify the sounds made by various farm animals.

The students will discuss the title of the book and determine what is wrong with it. Then, the teacher will read the book aloud to the class. The students will predict which animal comes next by using context clues. Then, students will pick an animal and determine the sound that they make. They will then identify the sound that the initial consonant makes by that animals calling. Then each student will be given three cards with a consonant on it. They will identify a sound made by an animal that starts with the same initials consonant. They will then share these sounds and the name of the animal that makes them as a class. This activity supports critical literacy because students will recognize that words are made of letters and that letters stand for sounds. This is a phoneme grapheme correspondence.

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Little Blue Truck (Fiction)


By: Alice Schentle Illustrated by: Jill McElmurry Grade: Kindergarten
Little Blue Truck is about a truck that drives by farm animals and beeps. He sees toads, sheep, cow, pig, chicken, chick, goat, hose, and duck. Then as the truck is driving a dump truck honks and says he needs to get through fast. He ends up getting stuck in the mud. The dump truck honks for help but all of the farm animals ignore him. The little blue truck comes around to help and gets stuck too. All of the animals come running and start to push the little blue truck, which is pushing the dump truck. Then the toad came to help push and the trucks became free. The dump truck realizes that friends help each other. All the animals then hop into the little blue truck and drive away. Standards: SL.K.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail. Objective: Students will be able to sequence story events. First, ask the students to think about a time where they helped someone, what did you do, how did it make you feel, and how did it make the other person feel. Tell them that in this story the animals and the little blue truck work together to solve a problem. Read the book aloud to the class. Give each student a picture and corresponding word card of each of the characters in the story. Students will be asked to line up according to the order in which the characters appeared in the story. After, ask the class what they think would have happened if the little blue truck never decided to come and help. They can rewrite their own ending to the story as if the little blue truck did not come to help. This is helps literacy development because it helps the students learn about cause and effect, and the importance of the sequence of events.

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Mrs. Wishy-Washys Farm (Fiction)


By: Joy Cowley Illustrated by: Elizabeth Fuller Grade: Kindergarten
Mrs. Wishy-Washy has a farm, with a barn, house, truck and animals. Next to her barn she has a tub where she washes all of her animals. The cow, pig, and duck are tired of getting washed by Mrs. Wishy-Washy and run away. The animals go to the city because they think the barns are big there. They see that in the city it is wild, and there is nowhere for them to go. They go into a restaurant and hardware store. Then they get picked up by the animal jail and sit in jail. Then Mrs. Wishy-Washy comes to get the pig, cow and duck. The animals run to the barn and love getting washed. They realize that their home is the best. Standards: L.K.1d Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how). RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. Objective: Students will be able to reenact the events in the story by putting on a class play. Students will look at the title of the book and think about why someone with the name Wishy-Washy would be associated with a farm. After the discussion the students will listen to the book as it is read aloud by the teacher. Upon completion, the students will be given assigned roles and they will reenact the story. Once they are given their role they must decide the key literary interrogatives for their character. Without scripts the students will perform an add-lib version of Mrs. Wishy-Washys Farm. This helps with literacy development because it allows the students to verbally discuss the book. It also helps the students with the understanding of question words.

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