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Teacher Share: Fox the Tiger

A 3:36-Min. Video on Ideas for Using the Book of the Week with Students

Teacher’s Takeaway

“In [Fox the Tiger], Fox eventually realizes that while it’s fun to dress up like something else sometimes, ultimately, the best thing is to be your unique self!” —Joyce Dlugose

Just like Fox in the Book of the Week, Fox the Tiger by Corey R. Tabor, sometimes we all wish we could be someone we’re not. And while playing pretend can be very exciting and worthwhile, at the end of the day, our own unique selves are more than enough.

Second grade teacher Joyce Dlugose from Holland Township School in Milford, New Jersey, shares suggestions for how to use this self-affirming early reader with your students.

Teacher Tip: Incorporating Movement

By placing onomatopoeias around your classroom, students can get out of their seats and move. This can help renew focus!

• Sound Words: Try writing different onomatopoeias from the story and placing them around your classroom. Students can go around and write different things that might make those sounds.


• Previewing Books: Before diving into the story, encourage students to look at the cover and title and make predictions about what they think will happen. This can help foster curiosity about the story.

• Elements of a Story: Encourage your students to identify as many language-arts elements as they can in the story, such as picture cues and dialogue. How do these elements enhance their experience of reading?

• Text-to-Self Connections: Fox wants to be a tiger; how about your students? Students can illustrate what they would want to be as a class activity. You can even tie in social-emotional learning by encouraging them to think about what they love about being themselves.
 

Try Joyce’s suggestion to let students imagine what they want to be by downloading the free printable “Let’s Play Pretend!” worksheet in this week’s Cooked Up from a Book.


How do you plan to use Fox the Tiger with your class? Please share with the Scholastic Book Clubs community on Facebook and Instagram using the hashtag #ScholasticBookClubs.

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Fox the Tiger
by Corey R. Tabor
Fun Tale of Friendship and Self-Acceptance

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A Note from Judy

Dragons are huge fans of tacos—as long as they don’t have one secret, spicy ingredient! The Book of the Week is the laugh-out-loud, fun-to-read-together picture book Dragons Love Tacos, written by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri!

Dance to an original song with the Book Boys; discover the many ways that one first grade teacher uses Dragons Love Tacos with her students in Book Talks; read an exclusive interview with Adam Rubin in Behind the Scenes; and download a free printable “Dragons Love My Tacos!” recipe activity in Cooked Up from a Book that also helps students practice sequencing.

We hope that your younger readers have a blast with Dragons Love Tacos—and remember: no salsa!

Judy Newman

President and Reader in Chief
Scholastic Book Clubs

Book of the Week

Dragons Love Tacos

by Adam Rubin, illustrated
by Daniel Salmieri
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