Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin

Book Genre: Fiction
Publishing Info: Little Simon; 40 pages
Awards received: none

Summary: Letters of the alphabet are on a coconut tree. The letters tell each other to meet them at the top of the tree. As all the letters are making their way up the tree starts to sway. Once the letter z goes to the top the tree all the letters fall down. All the alphabet family members come running to help the letters that had fallen. The book describes how the letters look after they had fallen out of the tree. Night time arrives and the letter a asks the letter b to meet at the top of the tree again!

Personal rating: ****Great! This story has lot of rhythm! It has several 'catchy lines in the text. Young students such as K will love this story and it helps to recognize the alphabet in a really fun way!

Reading level: 2.0
Interest level: K

Possible uses of the text:
Art: Students cover their arm in brown paint and lay it on paper for the truck of the the tree. Put green paint on their fingers for the tree leaves. Have them write their name going up the tree. It will look like the coconut tree in the story!

Math: Have students sort the upper/lower case letters of the alphabet.

Potential problems: none'

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