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Christelow, E. (1989). Five little monkeys jumping on the bed.
Imprint 215 Park avenue, South New York, New York 10003:
Clarion Books Publishing Company.

ISBN# 10: 0-395-55701-1

   This story is about the five little monkeys that are get ready on bed.When they know that Mama monkey is gone , they play and keep jumping on the bed and the next is trouble.Mama monkey calls the doctor , each time the doctor says, "no more monkeys jumping on the bed."

    This book is very interesting for children.They can do an action songs that everyone can participate by doing the actions.

     The illustrator, itself the author of the book, used the pencil and ink for the lines to draw the five little monkeys. She used watercolor, water pencil color and water color crayons.

     To set the provocations, have picture of the five little monkeys. Ask question like " I wonder what five little monkeys are doing?" Do you want to know? Tell them that you are going to read a story about the five little monkeys.

3 ways of presenting the book:
A. Felt Story: you need felt board and cut-out animals to let children be able to recognize who is mother monkey, doctor monkey, etc.
- for easy cut-out of the animals that you are going to use for the felt story, first draw a monkey figure on a cardboard, then trace it on the felt, cut and put accessories.
- put out and stick on the felt board the characters one by one while telling the story.
B. Reading Story: you need the book, read it aloud to the children using different voices for each character in order to catch attention of children. Stop on each page of the story, ask question in order to stimulate children's thinking while listening, find out if their guess answer is correct.
C. Story Basket: you need the basket and the cloth big enough to cover the basket, in order not to be able to see the content, animals or characters that are part of the story, you can buy some animals at the dollar store, you can make small pillows and small bed for the realization of the story that you are going to tell.

Extensions:
A. You can do a finger puppet while you are singing the five little monkeys jumping on the bed.
B. Talk about what happend to the five little monkeys, so that children learn the value of listening to their parents and to other adults.
C. Monkey Toilet Paper (from http://www.dltk.kids.com/)
materials:
 toilet paper roll, printer, color, scissors, glue, and paper

Steps:
1. Go to website http://www.dltk.kids.com/
2. Print the templates and photocopy as many as you want the pattern for the children.
3. Colour and cut out the templates pieces.
4. Glue the rectangular piece on first to cover the tube.
5. Glue the chest, head and arms.
6. Fold the feet tabs and glue to the inside, bottom of the tissue paper roll.
7. Fold the tail in half and glue so it looks coloured on each side, then fold the tab and glue to the tissue paper roll.
8. Glue the banana into one of the hand.

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Mosel, A. (1968). Tikki Tikki Tembo.
115 West 18th Street.
New York, New York 10011: Henry Holt and Company

ISBN: 0-8050-0662-1

          In China, they give a long name for their first son. This story is about a boy named “ Tikki tikki tembo-mo sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo which mean “ the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world”. While his youngest sibling named Chang which mean “little or nothing”. The two brothers are always go to the old well. Even though their mother is always warned them not to go to the well. They don’t listen to their mother until one day Chang fell into the well. Tikki tikki tembo-mo sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo run as fast to the mother. He tells what happend and the youngest son saves so fast and safely. They celebrating the Festival of the Eight moon and they ate their rice cakes close to the old well.Then Tikki tikki tembo-mo sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo fell into the well. Chang ran so fast but the mother can’t understand what he because of the great long name and hardly to say. Since then, the Chinese have always given a short name to their children.

         Using this book, the children will learn about the different cultures.

         The illustrator used hard bound cover, glossy paper and acid wash color, and the natural colors that you see in our nature.

         To set the provocations, the teacher can challenge the children to say “Tikki tikki tembo-mo sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.

3 ways of presenting the story :
A. Puppet story: make a stage that made of box. Draw and cut the characters, attach to the sticks.
    You need four children to hold the puppet sticks at the back of the box stage. Tell the story.
B. Reading the story: read the book with the different voices to amuse the children.
C. Magnet story: you need magnet board, cut the characters and set aside. Tell the story and put the characters according the sequence of the story.

Extension activities:
A. The children can do a cultural danc, like dragon dance, Indian dance etc.
B. Challenge the children to write their full name.
C.  Have a discussion about different cultures.

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Sloat, T. (2005). This is the house that was neat and tidy.
115 West 18th Street,
New York, New York 10011: Henry Holt and Company.

ISBN – 0-8050-6921-6

          This story is about the house that is tidy and neat, but when the mom left the mouse, the cat, dog, a boy and a girl made a mess. When the dad comes home they clean the house. The mom comes in a tidy and neat home.

          Using this book, the children will learn how to help each other and treasure the tasks of individual.

          The illustrator used the hard bound cover and glossy paper.The picture is very clear and the children will enjoy the story.

          To set the provocations, the teacher can ask a question like "Are you helping your mommy to clean up your room?".

3 ways to present the book :

A. Felt Story: have a felt board and a felt character of the story ready. Tell the story according to the sequence of the story.
B. Reading the story: read the story with intonation of the voice.
C. Basket story: you need basket and props. Hide the props in the basket. Take out the character according to the sequence of the story.

Extensions:

A. The teacher can ask/tell/show to the children how to clean the room/house and tell them the importance of hygiene.
B. A discussion where do animals live.
C. Have a field trip and show the children the different places in a nice ambiance.

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Hort, L. (2000). The seals on the bus
Henry Holt and Company:
New York, New York

ISBN# 0-8050-5952-0

   This story is about the seals and different animals that are all aboard on the bus all around the town. The sounds make by different animals scared the people on the bus, who jumped out and asked for help.

    Using this book for children, they will learn and recognize the sounds make by the different animals.It's fun and enjoyable for the children if they will imitate the different animals' sounds.

    The illustrator used the pencil gouache, acrylic medium and cut paper to create illustrations and it's hard cover.

    To set provocations, have a picture of a bus with passengers of people and animals. Ask the children," what do they feel if they are in this scenario?"

3 ways of presenting the story:

A. Felt Story- make felt board and cut out animals and people that you are going to use while telling the story.Your own creativeness can be applied in making the different animals to be used in the story. Tell the story in the manner where you can get the attention of the children, and let them guess what animals they think will hop on the bus next ?

B. Reading Story- You need the book, chunk and stop. Ask the students about what will happen next? Use the different voices or sounds pattern make by different animals.

C. Audience Participation- Have a big cut out of  a bus. Ask the children who will be a certain character who wants to hop on the bus while you are telling the story.

Extensions:

1. Bus safety bulletin board
       Make a huge bus on the bulletin board with childrens' faces in the windows. Have speech bubbles above their head with bus safety rules in the bubbles.

2.Musical chairs
      Set your classroom chairs up like the seats on the bus and sing" The Seals on the Bus",sing along with motions or sounds make by character animals in the story.

3. Outside game
      Play" Red Light, Green light." One student is the traffic signal and stands well in front of the class who's lined up shoulder to shoulder. The student in front turns his back to the class and says," Green Light ". The class starts to move towards the student in front turns back around and yell, " red Light". The class must freeze. Any one caught moving is out of the game. The person to reach the student in front first, is then allowed to be the traffic signal.

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Dunbar, J. (2006). Where’s my sock?

The Chicken House, 2 Palmer Street:
Frome, Somerset  BA11 1DS:
United Kingdom

ISBN : 0-439-74831-3


         This story is about two pal named Pippin and Tog. Tog helped Pippin to find his yellow sock with clock. To set the provocations, ask the children “How can they find the sock in the easiest way?” Reading this story to the children, they will learn how to help each other and know the importance of patience.

          Using this books, the children will learn the different colors, designs, shapes and to organize simple things.

          The illustrator used hard bound cover, glossy paper. She used also water color and colored pencils.

3 ways of presenting the story:
A. Felt story: materials needed: felt board, two main characters and different kinds of sock made of felt cloth.
B. Audience Participation: draw and design a different sock made of paper, cardboard, or felt cloth and cut into shape.The teacher can ask two children to be Tog and Pippin.The teacher can hide or distribute socks to the audience while the main character is not looking.Read the story and the children will do re- enactment  of the story.
C. Reading the story: read the story loudly with the use of different voice pattern to read the story.

Extension activities:
A. Socks hunt – the children are looking for the pair of socks.
B. Ask the children to draw their favorite sock and children will tell the story about it.
C. The teacher and children will  have discussion about the good moral values of the story.

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Middleton, S. E. (2006). Bebe' goes shopping.

Orlando, FL: Harcourtbooks.

ISBN: 0-15-205426-x

       This book is about a child who goes to a supermarket with his mom. It's a bilingual book (English - Spanish). It's written with simple words quite easy to understand by children 3-5 year old. Children can learn and get to know some of the words in Spanish which could be also fun for them. I personally like the illustrations of the book, because they are simple, modern, colourful, and at the same time meaningful, which gives you quickly the idea and what is meant.

       Children will like the illustrations because they vary a lot, each page is different from the other and gives you a different idea, the child's face is cute and friendly. I will use this book for children since they go shopping very often with their parents, this book can help them imagine themselves in the book in different parts (aisles) of the store.

       I would provoke children's interest by talking about the supermarket and ask them questions: what can you buy in a supermarket? Let them say everything they know, talk and discuss about all the items one by one in order to give them more informations. I would stop and wonder about the pages where he's curious, and wants to touch everything, or the page where he leans and drops the key, in order to raise the children's curiosity and the danger of leaning on a cart.

3 ways to present the book:

A. Puppets: you can present the story by making puppets as mama, bebe' and the cashier, acting out their roles, using Spanish words to help children to learn  few words in Spanish. You can either create the puppets or use the different dollies to transform into the characters of the story.

B. Reading the story: gather all the children together, sitting on the floor opposite to me in a way that they can see the pages of the book and especially the illustrations very well, I will wonder about different pages and ask questions, such as: I wonder what is going to happen next?, let's see what "mama" is going to say, etc...

C. Felt board story: cut out on the different colours of felts the characters of the story, and also make a background on the felt board in order to let children feel the right environment. You can buy felts at the dollar store, craft store, fabric store, and make the "board' yourself.

Extensions:

A. Bring a picture of some of the items of the supermarket into the classroom such as: biscuit (animal shapes), melon, chocolate, etc..., and discuss about their nutrition values, to expand their knowledge in different areas.

B. Have a field trip to the supermarket of the neighbourhood more than once in a period of time. Stop at every aisle and discuss about different products.

C. Talk about the supermarket itself, why they have been created, what are the conveniences to shop at a supermarket.

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Galdone, P. (1986). Three Little Kittens.

New York, NY: Clarion Books.

ISBN: 13: 978-0-89919-796-8

       This book talks about three little kittens who do everything together, they are very close to each other, collaborate, and share the jobs, such as finding and washing their mittens. They respect their mom, try and do their best to make her happy.

       I would use this book because the rhyming is done very well, easy to understand, for 3-5 year old children, and also because it's about cats, and usually children love cats, maybe some of them own it at home as a pet. The illustrations on the book are interesting, colourful, children usually like to use and see many different colours, these also show different emotions of the kittens and their mom's very well. The background of the illustrations is made appropriately in each page (as kitchen, dining room, living room, the garden), I like them because they are very detailed and explain very well the environment where they are, children may enjoy them, because they might relate it to their own house, imagining themselves with their pets at home.

       I would build background knowledge by talking about the emotions that the kittens (cats) feel when they are sad, happy, angry, surprised, etc..., then ask them to make different sounds, "meowing" relatedly. I will ask children to "meow" while reading the book for the second time, in this way they can participate in reading the book, and feel part of it. I would stop and wonder about the pages where they find their mittens and tell their mom, and also when their mittens get dirty. I would discuss about their feelings (happiness, sadness, and also the mom's anger), why the mittens get dirty, what they should have done instead.

3 ways to present the book:

A. Puppet: making the puppets of the little kittens and their mom, and also create the background, put some of the items of their environment (for example the kitchen). You can either create the puppet yourself or use the old stuffy toys, the materials can be bought at craft store, fabric store.

B. Audience participation: I will ask children to participate in reading the book, be one character of the story and talk for it, even by changing their voices. Children usually like to be involved in the stories and talk for it, in this way they feel part of it, proud and important.

C. Felt board story: cut out the kittens and their mom on the felt, also create the background (ex. kitchen, garden, living room) in this way children see better where the story is happening. Felt can be bought at dollar store, thrift store, Dress & Sew, craft store.

Extensions:

A. talk to children about helping each other and the importance of the collaboration to make things done, as the kitten did in the story: finding mittens and also washing them when they were dirty.

B. Talk about their relationship, how they cared and loved each other.

C. Hide some coloured mittens in the classroom, and let the children find them.

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Adams, P. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
Sydney: Child's Play (International Ltd).

ISBN: 0-85953-018-3

       This book is about an old lady who swallows different animals starting from a fly, then she swallows another animal to capture the one before! It's kind of a "funny" and "weird" book which would certainly provoke children's attention. I would use this book for 3-5 year olds because, it's weird what happens in the story and children would wonder: "how is it possible?", "is she going to die?"
       It's a book with holes very well presented. The illustrations are done excellently, very bright colours, the way it shows the different animals that eat each other. Children would also enjoy the beautiful and attractive ways that have been used in the writing around the holes, they usually like diversities.
       I personally like this book, because it's different from the others, it's almost unusual the way it has been made, very colourful, I also like the happy faces of different characters in the story.
       I would provoke the children's interest by talking about the animals in the story, their way of living, habits, nutrition, sounds they make, the use that we make of them, each animal can be studied in a scientific way suitable for children.

3 ways to present the book:
A. Audience participation: I will ask children to act as each animal, or imitate the sound of it, in this way they will feel part of the story and important, at the same time they learn the art of acting.
B. Reading the story: read out the story by also showing the illustrations to them. Emphasize on the words and punctuations that are more important (ex. questions, exclamations), or sometimes you have to read louder, slower, quieter, these are all the things that make children more involved, hesitate, also feel part of it.
C. Props story: using props for children is usually fun and at the same time interesting. I will prepare props for each character of the story, and will ask children to help me with acting the props and talk like the animals of the story. For the props you can either make them, the accessories could be bought at the dollar store, craft store, or use soft toys in order to convert them into related characters.

Extensions:
A. Talk about all the animals in the story, explain about their characteristic, and discuss what use we make out of these animals in our life.
B. Bring a picture of the old lady, set it in the middle of the classroom, cut out the animals in different sizes and hide them in the class, let children find them and put them in the right order in the old lady's tummy.
C. Talk about the sound each animal makes, how they move, ask children to sound and move like one, talk about the colours of the animals and also their babies.

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Carle, E. (2004). The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

5 Alexandra Grove, London N12 8NU: Mantra.

ISBN: 1852691255

       This story is about the very hungry caterpillar. How this small insect turns into a beautiful butterfly. Children love to know the life cycle of butterfly, from a small caterpillar it becomes a cocoon and turned into a beautiful butterfly afterwards.

       The beautiful and colourful illustrations will drawn the children to look and listen the story.The illustrator used an oil pastel, coloured pencil and glossy paper.

       To set a provocations, have a coloured picture of the life cycle of a caterpillar, cocoon and a butterfly.

3 ways of presenting the story

A. Felt story, draw and cut a felt cloth in a shape of caterpillar, design and make it presentable, and all the pieces of fruits or food that are included in the story.

Let the children involve by putting every piece of fruit and food that the caterpillar eats for the whole week.

B. Reading the story, you need a book, chunk it by asking children if anyone see a butterfly? Or if they are afraid to touch a caterpillar? because of it's look frickly and soft body?

C. Picture books, we connect the children to the book by pointing out the details of different objects.

Extensions:

A. Discussion, "life cycle of the butterfly", what is the importance of butterfly to us?

B. Eating healthy food according to Canada Food Guide, importance of food in our body.

C. Learn the 7 days of the week by saying and recognizing the words.

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Simmons, J. (2000). Daisy and the Beastie.

Boston, New York London: Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN: 0-316-79785-5

       This story is about Daisy the duckling and her little brother Pip. Everytime they visit their Grandpa's farm they love to hear the mysterious "Beasties" and one day Daisy and Pip try to find it by themselves.

Children love to listen the different kinds of sound of animals, especially the farm animals. They love to imitate the sound and the way they move.

       The colourful illustrations give children the possibility to use their imaginations to know who is Beastie.

       To set the provocations have a picture of the farm with the different animals.

3 ways of presenting this book:

A. Felt story: make a felt board and cut out  of the animals in the story.

B. Reading the story: we need a book, chunk the book by asking questions who has a grandpa? Does your grandpa read a story for you? What is your favourite story?

C. Story basket: hide all the things in the basket and cover it, put out the characters one by one while you are reading the story.

Extension:

A. Recognizing different sound of the animals and the way they move.

B. Animals recognition, photocopy different pictures of the animals and let the children circle the animals that live in the farm.

C. Discuss in the class about the importance of friendship regardless of race and nationality.

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Martin Jr., B. (2004). Brown bear, Brown bear, what do you see?

New York, New York 10010: Henry Holt and Company. LCC.

ISBN: 3-3141 01148 4113

       This story is about brown bear and the different animals. Where in each page we will meet animals that will help us to discover who will be the next animal we could meet. By meeting these animals along the way,brown bear and other animals might build new friendship.

       The reason to choose this book for young children, especially the pre-reader, it's because children love to listen a short story,where they could easily comprehend the repetitive words that used in the book.

       The colorful illustrations will make children drawn.It is printed on acid free paper with the oil pastel colors. The excitement of this for children while looking at the puictures is because the animals become stranger and stranger, like the blue horse.

       To set the provocation,create puppets or picture of the animals which are part of the story and let them wonder about the color of the animals.

3 Ways of presenting this book

A.Felt Story- Make a felt board and felt cut out animals.

-Use wiggling eyes or any other accessories that you want for the pieces of the animals.

-for the easy cut out of the pictures, photocopy them the size that you want or size that would fit all the animals on your felt board.

-Trace the photocopy on felt and cut it.

-You can buy felt at any crafts store or for big sheet of felt you can buy at Dress and Sew.

B. Reading Story- You need book

- Let the children sit in a way that they feel comfortable;

- By flip-flopping the every page of the book, you can use variations of voice in different animals so that children will enjoy listening. Children will enjoy to hear funny voices that could capture their attention.

-Chunk or stop in every second page of the book, then ask the children who will be the next animal to meet by brown bear? What do you think will be the color of the next animal?

C. Story Basket- you need a basket big enough to put all the animals of the story.

-Cloth, to cover the contents of the basket.

-Putting out the characters while telling the story in a manner that the children will be amazed and interested in  listening.

-Through asking questions and letting children give their answer, there is already involvement of the listeners.

Extensions:

A. Doing animal sounds:

Color the pictures, talk about each animal. What sound does the animal makes? Where the animal does live? Ask them have they seen the animal before?

B. Color Recognition:

Photocopy the animals' picutres in awhite sheet and give each child different colors of crayons. Let them color the animals based on the story. You can guide and help them to remember the color of each animal.

C. Make a puppet:

Out of the picture that they colored, let them cut and paste it on the piece of cardboard, get popsicle stick and glue it at the back of pre cut picture.

Have a play in which they will follow an instruction that the teacher will say.( ex: all the bears,please stand up, etc. )

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London, J. (2002). Froggy plays in the band.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Group Ltd.

ISBN: 0-670-03532-7

       This story is about Froggy's marching band and lead the one and only Frogilina. When Froggy saw a sign that there is a big contest throughout school, the challenge and excitement came to him right away, and of course the "prize".

       The next day all his friends in the band start to practice in their yard and here comes Frogilina who  wants to join the group and lead the band and be a majorette. But there are rules in the band "don't look right, don't look left and don't stop for anything".

      This book is fun for children, because every child can join the group and they can play and listen to different instruments, but they need to follow the instructions.

       The illustrator used color pencil and a water color, illustrations have a big letter that excite the children to follow whoever will read it to them.

       To set the provocations, have a set of different instruments for them to listen and play.

3 ways of presenting this book:

A. Reading the story, you need a book, read it aloud to children using different voices according base on the story, chunk the book by asking children what is their favourite instrument? Who wants to listen to the music? Is there any instrument in their house?

B. Felt story: make a felt board, cut out of the different characters and instruments from the book, let the children stick on the felt board the different characters and instruments. The more children get involve, the more they will learn.

C. Musical story instruments: music prop box.

Extensions:

A. Game: group the children as you are going to play or form a parade or band, let them pick their favourite instrument that you have in your prop box.

B. Activities: simple vocabulary, by matching the picture with the word.

C. Recognizing the efforts of every child.