![]() When I came across it in my search this week, I knew I needed to refresh my memory. I remember reading it when I was a child, but I hadn't even thought about "Chicka Chicka" in a very long time. ![]() Engaging in the language arts: Exploring the power of language,(2nd ed.). Students could be asked, if a pair of words rhyme, then to identify which words rhyme in selected lines of the chant and to list others that rhyme with those words. Rhyming is also important to early phonemic awareness (Ogle and Beers, 2012, p.212). This book could be part of many strategies to teach letters including watching a video of the chant form the book and practicing the chant, putting the letters in order using an alphabet strip, practicing identifying letter names and sounds with flash cards modeled after the book, or using magnetic letters to model the action in the story while saying the letter names. 208) student knowledge of letters of the alphabet is one of the best predictors of early reading success. It would be best used as a read aloud for pre-reading students.Īccording to Ogle and Beers (2012, p. It uses a catchy chanting rhyme and bright colored basic illustrations to present lower case letters in alphabetical order. This board book is the first part of the popular book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by the same authors. With fun noises and cute pictures students will love this book very much, even today at age 19 I love this book and would absolutely show it to a number of children for enjoyment. However if it is early elementary, teachers might use it as a lesson plan to teach the alphabet. ![]() Children can probably read this story on their own if they are in elementary school. I think this book can be read to very simple readers and can be enjoyed by a number of ages. The story also rhymes, which adds to the fun of the book. The story is about letters trying to climb up a coconut tree and how through many struggles, they push to try and get up to the top. The colors are so beautiful and bright, I remember putting my fingers to the cardboard pages as i shifted from page to page. This book both taught me the abcs in a fundamental way, but I was also very interested in the book. This book has added to that list in a very special way. My mother, being a teacher, has found numerous ways in the past to teach ma and my siblings different ways to learn the alphabet.
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