Teacher Share: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
A 7-Minute Video on Using the Book of the Week to Teach Predicting and Inferencing, Writing Skills, and Problem Solving
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Teacher’s Takeaway
“A great discussion that I love to have with my students [when using Click, Clack, Moo] is that change can happen in a peaceful way when you work together and solve problems!” —Megan Mitchell
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What happens when you give cows a typewriter? Cast your predictions now!
In this dual Teacher Share video, curriculum writer Megan Mitchell and first grade teacher Jennifer Briggs come together to present the hilarious Book of the Week—Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Dorren Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin—along with some of their favorite takeaways for students.
Watch Megan and Jennifer’s video to discover how you can use this picture book with your students to teach predicting and inferencing, problem solving, personification, and more.
• Predicting and Inferencing: Before reading, encourage students to make predictions about what they think the story is going to be about based on the title and cover picture. Then on the final page of the book, students can make inferences about what they believe will happen once the ducks get the typewriter.
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Teacher Tip: What’s a Typewriter?
Many younger students won’t be familiar with typewriters! This is a great opportunity to encourage them to analyze the word and try to guess its meaning.
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Writing Skills: Students can write their own letters to Farmer Brown asking for electric blankets. Or they can write persuasive letters about a different topic, such as whether they should have more or less homework.
Connections to Text: Readers can make text-to-text connections by comparing the characters, settings, problems, and more between Click, Clack, Moo and other farmyard books or other titles by Doreen Cronin, such as Diary of a Spider (illustrated by Harry Bliss).
Character Analysis: Farmer Brown experiences a lot of emotions throughout the course of the story! Students can put themselves in his shoes and try to imagine how he feels based on evidence in the text and pictures.
Problem Solving: There are lots of problems in Click, Clack, Moo, from chilly cows to milkless farmers. Students can identify the problems and solutions, then open up a conversation about conflict resolution and the benefits of working together to solve issues.
Personification: Have students analyze the different ways that Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin give cows people-like characteristics and behaviors.
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