Days With Frog And Toad Analysis
ENGL 3300-Children’s Literature
Essay #1
February 27, 2014
Evaluation of Days With Frog and Toad
Book and Illustrations by Arnold Lobel
With all of the standards teacher have to follow and meet in their day to day decisions in guiding of our children, how can they choose a text to teach in the classroom? If you had this choice to make, how would you decide? With so many books being published every day how do we as educators decide which ones are a good fit in our lessons? In my evaluation of Days With Frog and Toad my intentions are to provide solid reasoning and proof to why this illustrated book would be a good choice for Early Childhood classrooms between the first and second grades. I will do so through explaining the book …show more content…
Days With Frog and Toad is a text in which early readers would relate to on many levels. Students in first and second grade are more likely to read a story where they can make predictions in a story and when they can identify with the characters portrayed, and the characters while not human are very easy for young children to identify with. They can put themselves in each situation and predict the outcome while choosing how they themselves would feel and act in the situations. Early readers also like to envision themselves as the characters and it would be easy for them to pretend as if they were Frog or Toad. The students can also look at the way Frog and Toad develop themselves and their friendship and apply it to their own lives to identify good and bad relationships and ways to strengthen friendships, how they value themselves and one another to help them communicate with one another by respecting others feelings. We can prompt discussion with questions like, what makes a good friend? Or how can we show someone we are their friend? Incorporating the text into a longer time frame would allow us to introduce other texts that cover similar material. Teachers could incorporate Fox Makes Friends, by Adam Relf (2005). Relf’s illustrated book tells the story of a fox that is determined to make friends and indeed does. In Fox Makes Friends Relf uses animals in his story as does Lobel although Relf’s artistry is abundantly more lively and vibrant. Fox Makes Friends would be a perfect starter book for a section of material leading up to Days With Frog and
Essay #1
February 27, 2014
Evaluation of Days With Frog and Toad
Book and Illustrations by Arnold Lobel
With all of the standards teacher have to follow and meet in their day to day decisions in guiding of our children, how can they choose a text to teach in the classroom? If you had this choice to make, how would you decide? With so many books being published every day how do we as educators decide which ones are a good fit in our lessons? In my evaluation of Days With Frog and Toad my intentions are to provide solid reasoning and proof to why this illustrated book would be a good choice for Early Childhood classrooms between the first and second grades. I will do so through explaining the book …show more content…
Days With Frog and Toad is a text in which early readers would relate to on many levels. Students in first and second grade are more likely to read a story where they can make predictions in a story and when they can identify with the characters portrayed, and the characters while not human are very easy for young children to identify with. They can put themselves in each situation and predict the outcome while choosing how they themselves would feel and act in the situations. Early readers also like to envision themselves as the characters and it would be easy for them to pretend as if they were Frog or Toad. The students can also look at the way Frog and Toad develop themselves and their friendship and apply it to their own lives to identify good and bad relationships and ways to strengthen friendships, how they value themselves and one another to help them communicate with one another by respecting others feelings. We can prompt discussion with questions like, what makes a good friend? Or how can we show someone we are their friend? Incorporating the text into a longer time frame would allow us to introduce other texts that cover similar material. Teachers could incorporate Fox Makes Friends, by Adam Relf (2005). Relf’s illustrated book tells the story of a fox that is determined to make friends and indeed does. In Fox Makes Friends Relf uses animals in his story as does Lobel although Relf’s artistry is abundantly more lively and vibrant. Fox Makes Friends would be a perfect starter book for a section of material leading up to Days With Frog and