Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See?

I had to put at least one Eric Carl  (and Bill Martin!) book in here, and I chose Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you See? because I have so frequently used it in the last few years where I have had the opportunity to work closely with students who  have special needs. The story is easy, and it is about a brown bear who looks to another animal asks what they see. The book goes on in this pattern for about 10 or different animals, and I like this book because you can teach sequencing, colors, animals, etc. and kids love all of the bright colors and the simplicity of the text that ends up becoming very memorable.

Since this book can be used for early pre-school to about Kindergarten leveled students, this might be a chance to create a fun group activity for the little ones. First they could complete a puzzle that goes along with the story as a pre-activity, and then after reading the story for practice, they could each draw a picture of the different animals, reciting the lines of each page until they get to the end with the children and the teacher. It may even be fun to have them make a little costume out of construction paper and have them each stand up in sequential order when it is their turn in the story to recite their lines.