Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Down by the Cool of the Pool

Down by the Cool of the Pool 
by Tony Mitton , Guy Parker-Rees (Illustrator) 
Scholastic, 2002
Summary: A frog, duck, pig, and friends dance themselves silly until they crash and splash into the cool pool. 

Lesson:   Based on its name, I was expecting a rhyming book,  but it was more than that.  It is filled with action verbs and onomatopoeias.  With K-2,  we made a dance of the action verbs and livened up the story.  With older kids, I would have talked more about onomatopoeia.

Level: K-2nd

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