Wednesday, October 1, 2014

If You Give a Pig A Pancake -Picture book




If You Give a Pig a Pancake was written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. It was published by Scholastic Inc. in New York in 1998. Many other similar books were written and illustrated by the same people. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If you give a Moose and Muffin are a couple of examples.



This book is appropriate for lower grade levels that need literature with a small variety of vocabulary and coordinating pictures and text. These books stimulate imagination because of the unrealistic plots.
 
Standard RL K.7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts)
 
With a kindergarten class, I would read the book aloud. But before I read each page, I'd ask the students to guess what was happening by just looking at the picture. After they make guesses, I'd read the sentence that goes along with the picture.
For example, an illustration shows the pig putting bubbles in the bathtub and the girl grabbing a rubber duck from another room. The students would have to guess what the pig wanted next. In this case, it would be the rubber duck.

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