The book Legs by Mike Artell is a simple yet entertaining story for younger children that asks the question, "Which animal's legs look like that?" Each page of the story contains a simple rhyme that is unfinished, accompanied by a picture of an animal covered by a flap where the reader can only see the legs. The flap hides the animal's face and keeps the answer to the poem concealed. The students can then guess what the answer to the poem is and then lift the flap to reveal the answer. Such as the rhyme, " A girl ran away when I sat down beside her my eight legs are the legs of a..." Let's see if you can get it in the comments.
The rhyming book Legs could be used with the following standard in kindergarten:
ELACCKRF2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Recognize and produce rhyming words.
The book could be used to help students become familiar with rhyming words. Once the students understand the rhyming pattern, they could come up with their own rhyming words with teacher guidance.
Since Legs is a lift the flap book, the students could make their own simpler version of a lift the flap book using their own rhyming words. Handouts with pictures of various animals could be given to the students and they could cut out small flaps to cover the head of the animal like the author did in Legs. This would be another opportunity for the students to come up with more rhyming words to go into the lift the flap book they made.
I love this one. It's rather inventive and a "get to know the body" book. Granted it's only about legs, but making connections through rhyming and pictures makes it lots of fun. The activity of making your own "flap book" is very fun and could possibly be changed to a different part of the body, like hands or ears. Esther
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