Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting

My favorite page!  What do you think they are looking at?

Hurry! Hurry!" shouts a joyful chicken, her wings outstretched.  The news happily spreads across the barnyard.  All the while, the children listen and predict what all the animals could be rushing to see  and where are they going!   A wonderful picture book by a favorite author, Eve Bunting.
Simple words, repeated twice on each page.  A perfect book to do "I have, who has?"  reading-listening activity! It's a wonderful book for Spring! and would be nice to include when studying farm animals.

 "I have, who has?"  and wordshape activity to go with this book

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Wise Owl Factory

Get these response pages for this book at Wise Owl Factory.

Incredible Ned

Read Incredible Ned and use the book for a springboard on discussion about artists and how they visualize what they want to draw or paing.  Incredible Ned, You could see what he said!

Incredible Ned, You could see what he said

Every "thing" that he spoke appeared over his head,

Or right next to his chair.  Or a few yards away,

And his friends would all shout:

"WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU SAY!"

Ned is an amiable boy with a shock of red hair, a shy smile and a humble demeanor. "When Ned said `giraffe,' you could see a giraffe,/ And its neck was so long it made everyone laugh./ ...No wonder the children didn't get their books read:/ It was so much more fun just to watch what Ned said."
Ned's mother knows her son is incredible when she "sees" his first word. When Ned says gorilla, his friends all jump back. And when he says bananas, it's time for a snack.

Soon Ned's teacher is upset, the nurse is up to her ears in pills, and even the bandleader doesn't know what to do — until a friendly art teacher discovers the cure when she hands Ned a pencil.

Some artwork by the kids:

the hidden alphabet

all you need for this lesson is the book, a pencil and paper

 by Laura Vaccaro Seegar

This is the BEST book ever for Reading Readiness. Even the cover is fun!
so as you can see the book is all black but if you take off the dust cover, you and the children will see letters...random all over the place! Then place the cover back on and you see the Title...
the hidden alphabet
Now that is just the beginning. Each page in this book shows a word first then the letter it begins with, children read the word and then predict what letter they might see. I have the children use whiteboards or pencil and paper.   Read the story giving children time to write each letter as the alphabet unfolds. For example, the book shows a door and you say, "What letter do you think you will see?" Children write the letter D; then you reconfirm their guess when you turn the page...and more fun...the pages turn up!  Go slowly and enjoy each page.   ...you will love this book as much as the children.  Great book to reinforce alphabet, practice handwritiing, making predictions, teaching titles,

 listen, look and do!

here are some example pages:

Read : balloons      Ask:  What letter do you think you will see?


This is the next page the children see. 

Read: mouse
Ask:   What letter do you think you will see?

This is the next page.

And so it goes..... When you finish the book, the children will have written their alphabet.  This is a wonderful book.  It's clever.  It's motivating. It captures the children's attention.