Book Title: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Beach Lane Books
Copyright Date: 1989
Genre: Concept book (alphabet)
Brief Annotation: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom uses a rhythmic way of reading the ABCs as they 'climb up the coconut tree.' The letters climb up the tree in order, like 'here comes f, followed by g!" There is a visual on every page of the lowercase letters making their way up the tree. When the letters all get to the top they're too heavy, so they fall down and have to climb up again! This time the 'grown-ups' (uppercase letters) help their little ones patch themselves up (skinned-knee d and loose-tooth t, etc) and try to climb the tree again.
Your Rating (1-5) and why: 5: This is one of my favorite books to read to kids, especially after they're familiar with the traditional alphabet song. Kids can learn a new tune to go along with their letters. I like that it shows the letters in normal font, not as another character bent into what the letter should look like.
Readers who will like this book: Readers who will enjoy this book are those learning their letters and working on their alphabet songs!
Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) : Alphabet Books (Tompkins, p. 4): I am envisioning using this book with a pre-primary or kindergarten audience to help learn letters. I thought an alphabet book where students could draw or color in the letters and then write what happened to them on the way down the tree would reinforce letter knowledge. Since they will already be familiar with the story, students could decorate each letter page and write a sentence featuring the target letter about what happened to that letter in the book. For example, on the 'J' page the student might write, "The J Jumped out of the tree."
Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) : Alphabet Books (Tompkins, p. 4): I am envisioning using this book with a pre-primary or kindergarten audience to help learn letters. I thought an alphabet book where students could draw or color in the letters and then write what happened to them on the way down the tree would reinforce letter knowledge. Since they will already be familiar with the story, students could decorate each letter page and write a sentence featuring the target letter about what happened to that letter in the book. For example, on the 'J' page the student might write, "The J Jumped out of the tree."
Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: Who knows the ABCs? Did you know there's another song with the ABCs in it?! See if you can figure out which letter I'm going to read next!
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