Book Details: Author: Anna DewdneyPublisher: Viking Pages: 40 Format: hardback ISBN: 0670061980 Place of Publication: New York Date of Publication: 2009 Review: Llama llama misses mama adds to the llama llama's collection; these stories focus on overcoming emotional endeavors. In this story little llama is attending his first day of school and is have difficulties parting from mama llama along with an array of emotions corresponding with first day jitters. Llama llama books are fun to both read and listen to, providing many opportunities to repeat, rhyme and read with inflection. Dewdney working as author and illustrator incorporates detailed pictures which truly bring this story to life providing details beyond written text. Come along with little llama on his first day of school! |
Rational for Book Choice and Instructional Setup: Flency is an intgral aspect of an effective reader, one must be able to read without errors, with expression and comprehend the information read. Fluency is one of the elements of Within-Text-Comprehension in accordance to Boushey & Moser's The Cafe Book. The daily cafe menu provides a list of strategies that help students build Fluency; using punctuation to increase appropriate inflection and rhythm in a story as well as practicing sight words and high frequency words are two of these strategies. Llama llama misses mama incorporates the practice of common words and has ample opportunity to engage in intonation practice as the punctuation is recurrently dynamic throughout the story: punctuation, commas, hyphen, exclamation point, question mark. Familiar characters and expectations of rhymes. short, simple sentences easily navigate to end to check punctuation. Many opportunities to explore punctuation and to emphasize words and use expressive language. Expressive language is most obvious in children's fiction. CAFE menu: http://www.thedailycafe.com/CAFE%20Menu92010pdf.pd fBoushey, G., & Moser, J. (2009). The CAFÉ book. Portland, ME: Stenhouse. |
Activate Relevant Prior Knowledge:
Many students in Elementary school of familiar with little llama from one of Dewdney's llama llama books. Ask the class if they've read a llama llama book previously, if so--what was it about? Tell the class that this story is about little llama's first day at school. Ask the students to try to remember their first day at school.. how did you feel? Share with a neighbor one thing you felt and why. Ask the question: How is emotion conveyed in text? Prompt students to discuss picture clues-facial expressions, punctuation, style of printed words. |
Establish Purpose & Interactive Read Aloud:
Before the read-aloud begins, prompt students to watch out for emotion: picture detail, text style, punctuation. Remind students that books can't talk for themselves and it's our job as readers to be detectives and follow the clues to read fluently: expressively with comprehension and minimal hesitation. This read aloud is relatable to students as everyone encounters times in their lives when they feel new and must accept a changing attitude/perspective on something after an exposure. Students can share examples of when they feel shy and what they do to welcome and include new friends. The teacher will also demonstrate expressive and non-expressive reading for students to compare characteristics and record differences on chart paper as a group. |
Connection/Teaching Point:
Expressive language is a fun means to aid students on the road of fluency. No longer is the goal just to understand what word is made of the letters but now saying those words in the correct context will bring the story to life, and aid in comprehension. Use expressive language: inflection in accordance to punctuation marks. Reader must scan ahead to punctuation to prepare intonation... Re-read when not appropriate.
Expressive language is a fun means to aid students on the road of fluency. No longer is the goal just to understand what word is made of the letters but now saying those words in the correct context will bring the story to life, and aid in comprehension. Use expressive language: inflection in accordance to punctuation marks. Reader must scan ahead to punctuation to prepare intonation... Re-read when not appropriate.
Modeling:
Teacher will introduce book then read aloud. After the first two pages on reading monotone, ask students if it sounds right? What's missing? Expressive reading, changing tone and volume. Teacher starts over. Self corrects a couple sentences throughout to add expression/more expression/correct expression.
Teacher will introduce book then read aloud. After the first two pages on reading monotone, ask students if it sounds right? What's missing? Expressive reading, changing tone and volume. Teacher starts over. Self corrects a couple sentences throughout to add expression/more expression/correct expression.
Dewdney, A. (2009). llama llama misses mama. NY: Scholastic INC.