Doing the Animal Bop (Ormerod and Gardiner)While reading Doing the Animal Bop by Jan Omerod and Lindsey Gardiner I found myself entranced by the creative rhyme scheme, rhythm and colorful characters. I was impressed with the authors' ability to make an emergent literature book a compelling invitation to groove, move, articulate challenging phrases and imitate animal sounds. According to Charlotte Huck's 2nd edition of Children's Literature, children prefer books that include animals and humor. Luckily, the friendly critters that danced their way to my hearts from the story are colorfully created with humorous facial expressions. Huck also acknowledged that illustrations, format and color are determinants in children's reading interests. Each page of Doing the Animal Bop is unique in the attractive color combinations used, as well as various methods of text placement on the page. The story rhymes continuously, even involving animal sounds. Rhymes and challenging phrases like "flim-flam flutter" develop students' fluency and pronunciation skills. Each animal invites the students to participate in a physical activity, like stomping their feet, jumping, wiggling and waddling. Through my internship, I observed that when children became restless while reading as a group my corresponding teacher would play a movement based song that encouraged children to dance and practice their directional knowledge. Reading this book during class would be a fun way to get students up and moving while reading. In class activity
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