Hi Clouds by Carol Greene

Book Genre: Fiction

Publishing Information: Publishing Enterprises, Inc., 1983 (30 pages)

Summary: Two children making their way to the park, take time to notice the different shapes of clouds. They use many adjectives to describe the clouds, such as fat, thin, gray and white. The clouds appear to look like a dog, a fish, a frog, a sheep, a dragon, even the boy and girl.

Personal Rating: (*** Good) There is a word list which is very helpful for vocabulary and spelling. Also, this book shows the different shapes of clouds, which may trigger a child's imagination when observing clouds. This is a very simple book to read and would be helpful for a beginner reader.

Reading Level: 1.2
Interest Level: K-2

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study:

Science: This would be a great starter book for young children learning about our ecosystem, how clouds form, and how rain develops. Also, this book would be good for studying different types of clouds, cirrus, stratus, cumulous, and cumulonimbus.

Art: Students would use cotton balls, construction paper, glue, and magic markers to make scenes of different types of clouds. They will color the edges of the cotton balls to show rain clouds. The students will label the different types of clouds.

Math: Students will use construction paper, cottonballs, and glue to make cloud shapes such as squares, ovals, rectangles, triangles, and circles. Also, clouds made clould be used to observe bigger than and less than.

Writing: The students will write a short story using the witing prompt, "If I were a cloud, I would be a..."

Reading: There is a word list at the end of the story for spelling, vocabulary, and understanding of words in context. These words could be used as spelling words for the week.

Beverly Ross