1111 STORYTIME 1
After Reading Aloud Talk About It! Because much of the book is wordless, it is helpful to flip through the illustrations as the children retell the story. What happens each time the zookeeper says goodnight? Why do the animals follow the zookeeper? What happens after the zookeeper goes to sleep? How do you think the zookeeper’s wife feels about Gorilla? Follow Me! Have children imagine they are leading Gorilla and the zookeeper to someplace new. Invite children to draw themselves in this new place with Gorilla and the zookeeper. Reread Read the book again, this time focusing on the illustrated but silent story about the mouse and the banana. Help children notice that the mouse is trying to “steal” the banana when the gorilla is still in the cage. Ask them to follow the mouse as he brings the banana on a string everywhere. Invite them to share what they think happened to the banana at the end. English Language Development Narrate the events of this story as the zookeeper. Choose a child to be Gorilla and tell the story as he or she frees each animal. Encourage children to act like the animal following Gorilla. Then, ask children to end the story any way they like. Research Connection Exposure to good stories lays a broad and lasting foundation for children’s emergent literacy skills. As children listen to books like Good Night , Gorilla or This Way , Ruby! , they experience a story read from start to finish. They begin to expect the rhythm of a beginning, middle, and end in all stories. Going through the story again, rereading it, and talking about it helps children develop wider vocabularies and their own storytelling abilities.
With very few words, the book Good Night,
Gorilla , tells the story of a mischievous gorilla who is not ready to go to sleep.
Get children moving and motivated with this adventure rhyme. Invite them to repeat each phrase after you. See the Program Guide for additional lyrics. GOING TO LOOK FOR LIONS We’re going to look for lions. We’re going to see a big one. We are not afraid! We have each other! Look, over there. Tall grass! Wavy grass. We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it.
We’ll have to go through it! Swish, swash, swish, swash
Share the Big Book Introduce Good Night, Gorilla Show the cover and explain that it is nighttime, but the gorilla does not want to go to sleep. When I look at the cover of this book, I see that the gorilla has the zookeeper’s keys. What do you think the gorilla will do instead of going to sleep? Let’s read the book to find out. Read Interactively As you read the book, pause to focus on the beginning letter and sound in each animal’s name. Gorilla. What letter do you see at the beginning of the word gorilla ? What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word gorilla ? That’s right. The letter g makes the / g / sound.
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