Welcome to Saturday Story Spotlight, my feature where I discuss books my husband and I are reading with our son, Daniel. These are books that he, we, or all of us particularly enjoy.
Will You Wear a BLUE Hat?by Scholastic
Published by Children’s Press, an imprint of Scholastic
First farm animals, now primary colored outerwear. I’m starting to really dig the Rookie Toddler series from Scholastic. In Will You Wear a BLUE Hat, a little boy is being questioned by an unseen other about which of his primary colored pieces of clothing he will wear in order to go outside and stay warm.
We read this book three times just today, because it is just awesome. Daniel is making really good progress on his letters (he can identify almost all of them, and say nearly the entire alphabet) and can count to 10 pretty well, and knows lots of animal names and noises, even some shapes, so I figured the next thing we need to work on is colors. I adore Will You Wear a BLUE Hat for that.
For starters, all of the color names are printed in their eponymous color. The question (for example, “Will you wear a blue hat?”) is repeated in a sing song fashion with a great cadence, with the options shown, and then on the next page the child is seen wearing the item. It was a great conversation starter about color, we talked about all the different colored items on the page, and by the third time we had read the book, Daniel seemed quite confident about naming the color of each item.
I taught elementary school, so I am comfortable pulling out textual and pictoral elements to enrich a reading time, but for parents who are not comfortable with this, this series of books has “Rookie Storytime Tips” in the back of each one, giving clues for taking the learning experience besides just the text in the book.
I’ll be looking for more from this series, and I’m sure we haven’t read this one for the last time.
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These books sound adorable. I know my kids always loved books with photographs and bright colors.
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My son learned his colors by practicing with all his Matchbox/Hot Wheel cars. We set up a row of different pieces of construction paper plays a match game, placing the cars on the right color of paper and saying the color out loud.
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I really like the book cover. It is attractive and as we know, babies and toddlers are attracted to colors and faces.
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I love the sound of this book and I am so buying it for my friend…now!
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