Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

Book Genre: Fiction

Publishing Info: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 32 pages

Awards or honors received: Caldacot Honor Book

Summary: This book is a book about Farmer Brown and his typing cows. His cows has learned how to type on the typewriter, and they start writing him notes asking for things to make them more comfortable. When they didn't get the blankets they asked for, they went on strike, not giving out any milk. They asked for blankets for the hens also, and when they didn't get those blankets the hens refused to give eggs. This went on until they decided to exchange their typewriter for some blankets.


Personal rating and reason for rating: ***** Great. This book is really fun. Young children think it is hilarious, and it is a really fun story to read aloud. Many children at the end of first grade can read it themselves, and below level first graders have been read it many times they can read it from memory and gain confidence.

Reading level: 2.3

Interest level: k-3

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study (reading and writing across the curriculum): This is a great book to intoduce or reinforce the difference between fiction and non-fiction. It includes many things that animals wouldn't do, and would not need. For a social studies lesson, students can come up with many things in their own words that they think is unfair, and they could write a letter to someone asking to change it.

Potential Problems or Difficulties: None

(P.S I thought this was a really nice website, with great activities http://www.teachingheart.net/clickclackmoo.html )