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After Reading Aloud Talk About It! This book presents a good opportunity for children to think about what could really happen versus what is exaggeration. Some of this book seems like it could really happen. Some parts seem silly. Which parts do you think could really happen? What problem does the family have? How does Mommy try to solve the problem in the beginning? What helps Daddy stop snoring? Rumbled Like an Earthquake Go through the book and help children notice all of the ways that snoring is described: boomed like a dinosaur’s roar, rumbled like an earthquake, chugged like a freight train, buzzed like a bumblebee, and whistled like a teapot. Point out that they all use the word like . Encourage children to think of something loud. Then work together to create a way of describing it that uses the word like . Help children create pages for a book of similes. Reread Make a Monday-through-Sunday calendar. As you reread the story, help children notice the sounds on each day. Mark them on the chart. Then, talk about how the sounds changed from the beginning of the week to the end. English Language Development Flip through the book and pay special attention to the characters’ facial expressions. Provide children with the language to explain how the character is feeling ( The Mommy’s eyes are wide open and she looks very cold. ). Invite children to mimic the expressions. Research Connection The development of phonological awareness is linked to learning decoding skills later. As children gain awareness of large units of sound, this phonological awareness prepares them for hearing and discriminating smaller segments of words.
In My Daddy Snores , one family listens to lots of snoring noises during the night. Snoring can sound like a roaring dinosaur, a chugging train, and much more!
Engage children with this rhyme by matching simple movements with the sounds. Clap, Snap, Tap! 1. Begin with a simple pattern, such as: clap, clap, tap, tap, clap, clap. 2. Add a simple movement for each sound: clap hands for “clap” and tap knees for “tap.” 3. Do this a few times and then invite someone else to lead the game. Share the Big Book Introduce My Daddy Snores Read aloud the title and names of the author and illustrator as you share the book’s cover. Then, help children notice the “zzzzzz.” I see many letter “ z ’s” on this cover. Let’s count them. These letters make the sound / z /. That’s the sound some people make when they snore. Let me hear you snore. Now, let’s read this funny story. Read Interactively As you read the book, point out some of the exaggerations such as Daddy snoring like the dinosaur roaring and causing an earthquake. Model how you know this isn’t really happening as you read. Sometimes authors take a problem and make it sound even worse than it really is. Did Daddy really sound as loud as a dinosaur? Did the snore really shake Mommy out of the bed?
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