Involving Parents Through Children's Literature

Grades 1-2

Anthony D. Fredericks

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 1992
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313078385
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

You'll appreciate these tools for parent participation in the learning process. Reproducible activity sheets based on quality children's books are designed as take-home assignments for children. Each sheet includes a book summary, discussion questions, and a list of engaging learning activities for adults and children that increase discussion, reading skills, and comprehension.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Books and Activities
• Read to Me, Daddy
• Albert's Toothache
• A Boy, a Dog, a Frog, and a Friend
• Bread and Jam for Frances
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• A Chair for My Mother
• Corduroy
• Curious George
• Danny and the Dinosaur
• The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
• Do You Want to Be My Friend?
• Doctor DeSoto
• Frog and Toad Are Friends
• George and Martha
• The Gingerbread Boy
• Gregory, the Terrible Eater
• Harry the Dirty Dog
• Ira Sleeps Over
• Leo the Late Bloomer
• Little Bear
• The Little House
• Make Way for Ducklings
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
• Millions of Cats
• Miss Nelson Is Missing
• The Mitten
• No Roses for Harry
• Nothing Ever Happens on My Block
• Pancakes for Breakfast
• The Polar Express
• Rosie's Walk
• The Snowy Day
• The Story of Ferdinand
• Tales of Oliver Pig
• There's a Nightmare in My Closet
• The Three Bears
• Two Bad Ants
• The Ugly Duckling
• The Very Busy Spider
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Appendix: Supplementary Materials for Parents
• Index
• About the Author