Monday, June 28, 2021

Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1996)

      Onomatopoeia is a main idea in Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?. Dr. Seuss orients children to environmental sounds and their corresponding letter representations in this Book of Wonderful Noises. The journey is cumulative, so after considering the sounds of a cow, bees, corks, horse's feet, shoes,  a rooster, rain, and a train, all of these sounds are reviewed in a full page of noisy pleasure:"MOO MOO BUZZ BUZZ POP POP POP EEK EEK HOO HOO KLOPP KLOPP KLOPP DIBBLE DIBBLE DOPP DOPP COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO" At these moments of review, children practice short-term working memory while reveling in phonology of English. 

     SKH Little Learners has Mr. Brown Can Moo - Onomatopoeia.  GlitterInKindy has a Read Aloud lesson plan. Desiree Q Luong has Phonological Processes.

Come to the Ocean's Edge (2003)

  Come to the Ocean's Edge by Laurence Pringle (2003) is another book that basks in the beauty of the beach. The first page is a foggy d...