Book Genre: Poetry
Publishing Info: Harper Collins, 1964 - 46 pages
Awards or honors received: N/A
Summary: The book is a poem of silly things that happen if you stretched a giraffe into a giraffe and a half. Each page introduces a new event for the giraffe, then it repeats all the things that happened previously. It is a rhyming poem that repeats and is very funny. Every page also has an illustration of what is happening to the giraffe and the little boy.
Personal rating and reason for rating: **** This book is very funny and the illustrations are simple in black and white. I think everyone will love this story.
Reading level: 2.3
Interest level: K-8
Possible uses of the text: This story could be a lead-in for many different subjects: rhyming words, poetry, fluency, sequencing, author study
Rhyming Words: students look through the book and “highlight” the rhyming words with highlighter post-its
Poetry: students listen to the teacher read the story and then practice writing their own rhyming poems.
Fluency: students read aloud several times
Sequencing: type up the events that happened in the story, then have students put them in order as they happened in the story.
Author Study: Read several books by Shel Silverstein. Compare and contrast. Research Shel Silverstein.
Potential Problems or Difficulties: The story doesn’t really make sense, so you would not want to use it for comprehension.
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I am glad you included poetry as one of your genres!
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