Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, Row, Row Your Boat
1.-Type of book: Storybook (picture books), animal stories, others. Predictable books (books with repetitions and reinforcement).

2.-Format: paper back book.

3.-Multicultural: N/A

4.-Awards: N/A

5.-Age appropriate: from 3 to 5 years old

6.-Brief synopsis of book: This book is about row your boat, gently down the stream that life is but a dream. But what happens next? It’s time to hoist the sail and set out to sea, where an island is just waiting to be discovered.

7.-Interaction: have the kids sing the song Row, Row, Your Boat. Another interaction could be to make the animal noises that appear in the book, have the kids pretend to get on a boat, and also make the kids jump, slip, and leap.

8.-Qualities: color, word play (row, row your boat), (push, poke, tug and pull), listening pleasure and repetition (row, row, your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream)

9.-Debrief: What do you think you have to wear to get in a boat?, Why is the lion after the kids?, Why are the kids taking off their shoes?, what do you do when you are in the boat?

10.-Activities: children can make a boat using sticks, they can also draw a lion, you can have a group of kids to pretend to get in a boat and they can do what the book says, as a cooking project they can make a boat using bananas and pretzels.

-Lucia M.