Brown Bear What Do You See Book Report

The book I have selected is Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? (Martin, B. & Carl, E 1996) to use in a preschool classroom. This book strongly supports the relationship between language development and literacy as it consists of rhyming words with a very predictable storyline. It’s colorful paper collage pictures definitely keeps the students fully focused on the story as they pages turn. In the article Children’s Language and Literacy One Storybook at a Time (Beauchat, Blamey, & Walpole 2009), emphasis is placed on their observation that there are learning opportunities before, during and after reading to children and as educators we need to seize those instances (p.28). Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? has delightful activities that can help all learners in the classroom especially if we want to focus on InTASC standard number one, learner development. We want all students to succeed in spite of their learning styles, and as educators we need to modify or make accommodations while teaching. In this book, preschoolers meet a brown bear followed by a red bird, yellow duck, blue horse, green frog, purple cat, white dog, black sheep, goldfish, teacher and children. This picture
In the book 50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies (Beaty, J. 2013, p.26), children already know how to manipulate, master and make meaning of every object in their environment and we need to give them as many opportunities to be able to do this. Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see? Introduces preschoolers to rhyming words and when they are finally able to master their identification without prompts, they become phonologically aware. A child who may be struggling to speak can listen to the story being read with a rhyming chant or finger plays to help him feel more comfortable during story time. Students can also become word detectives and work together to find rhyming words in the