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After Reading Aloud Talk About It! Discuss why the llama might keep asking the other animals about their mamas. What question does the baby llama ask again and again? Why does he ask this question? How does the llama finally find his mama? How does he feel when he finds her? Pop-Up Pairs Invite children to actively listen for rhyming word pairs, raising one hand for the first rhyme and then the other hand for the second rhyme. Reread a few of the pages, stressing the last word of each sentence. Raise your hand for the first rhyming word and encourage children to do the same. Then challenge children to raise their other hand when they hear the second rhyming word. For example, raise one hand for cave and the other hand for behave . Reread Create two simple costumes to represent each animal in the story (i.e., black wings for bats, white feathers for swans, speech balloons saying “moo” for cows, whiskers for seals, pockets for kangaroos, and big ears for llamas). Invite pairs of children to dress up as each baby and mama animal pair and act out the story as you read the text. English Language Support In Is Your Mama a Llama?, the llama keeps asking the same question again and again: “Is your mama a llama?” Repeating this question is another way to have fun with language. Find a cut-out picture of a llama or a toy llama. Have children take turns holding the stuffed llama and asking the question.
In Is Your Mama a Llama?, a baby llama asks the title question to several different animals. Each animal’s rhyme- and-riddle response contributes to making the story so much fun to read again and again.
Introduce children to the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle.” Encourage them to act out some of the lyrics by miming the cat playing the fiddle or the cow jumping over the moon. Hey Diddle Diddle Hey diddle diddle. The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. Share the Big Book Introduce Is Your Mama a Llama? Point out the llama on the cover of the big book and share that a llama is a friendly animal covered in wool. In this book, the baby llama repeats the same question again and again— until he gets the answer he wants. Listen carefully and try to predict the words that rhyme in this story. Read Interactively As you read the rhyming couplets, pause before turning each page and give children an opportunity to help the baby llama guess the rhyming animal name. Emphasize the rhymes as you read aloud. Listen for the rhyming hints that tell us about each animal’s mama. Let’s think about an animal that hangs by her feet and lives in a cave. What animal name rhymes with “that”? It’s a mother bat!
Research Connection Phonological awareness, or the ability to
distinguish the sounds of spoken language, is an important skill that prepares children for future phonics and reading success. Playing with rhymes is one way to build phonological awareness. Children progress developmentally from enjoying rhymes to recognizing rhymes to eventually producing their own rhymes.
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