This thin classic from Scholastic, The Farmer in the Dell (2009), represents the key to language for some children because it combines music and words. The music is on the last page. The words show children how sentences are made by using a sentence frame: "the _____ take a ______." Children practice short-term memory skills by filling in the sentence frame differently based on what came before. The song is anchored by sound play in the chorus with "Hi-ho, the Derry-o." Steve Simpson's illustration add action. This book for reading, singing, and dancing.
