I bought this book without reading it first or hearing too much about it. I enjoy picture books with no abundance of words. I think picture book words should be brief and to the point. Most of the time the children who are reading the book or having the book read to them have a hard time maintaining focus when a book goes on and on. My first impression when getting this book was, "Wow, that's a lot of words!" I even passed it up when reading books to my kindergarten students. I didn't want to get half way through it and have all my students day dreaming about before the book had started. The nice thing about this book is it would be a great introduction to a discussion on earthquakes and rhyming. Little Chucky Ducky feels what he thinks is an earthquake and rushes off to warn all of his friends. They run into a weasel who wants breakfast, lunch and dinner out of Chucky Ducky and his friends. Luckily they discover the weasel before they become stew and also discover the reason for all the quakes. Here is a link to activities that correlate with the book.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Earthquack by Margie Palatini
I bought this book without reading it first or hearing too much about it. I enjoy picture books with no abundance of words. I think picture book words should be brief and to the point. Most of the time the children who are reading the book or having the book read to them have a hard time maintaining focus when a book goes on and on. My first impression when getting this book was, "Wow, that's a lot of words!" I even passed it up when reading books to my kindergarten students. I didn't want to get half way through it and have all my students day dreaming about before the book had started. The nice thing about this book is it would be a great introduction to a discussion on earthquakes and rhyming. Little Chucky Ducky feels what he thinks is an earthquake and rushes off to warn all of his friends. They run into a weasel who wants breakfast, lunch and dinner out of Chucky Ducky and his friends. Luckily they discover the weasel before they become stew and also discover the reason for all the quakes. Here is a link to activities that correlate with the book.
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2 comments:
this is a great book for readers theater.
don't sell your young kids short -- words are
fun.
I never thought of a readers theater. That is a great idea. I should tell you that I taught Kindergarten so when I did read this book to the students I was loosing some of their attention because of the length.
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