Title: Froodle

Author: Antoinette Portis

Illustrator: Antoinette Portis

Published: May 6, 2014 – Roaring Book Press

Suitable For Ages: Preschool – 3

Themes/Topics:  Humor, animals, birds, nature, being different

Froodle

Opening:

“All year long, the dogs went, woof. The cats went meow and the birds in the neighborhood went: caw, coo, chip, peep, caw, coo, chip, peep, caw, coo, chip, peep. Until one day, out of the blue, Little Brown Bird didn’t want to sing the same old song. She didn’t know what she wanted to say. Caw, coo, chip ? But it definitely wasn’t peep.”

Brief Synopsis: A hilarious, straightforward, simple story about a little bird who dares to do something different and shakes up the entire neighborhood in the process.

Why I Like This Book: It is purely delightful.  A laugh out loud belly giggler! And it speaks its own language for all those who beat to their own drum. An absolute must have! I love this book so much that I may be reading it before bedtime each night. Sweet Droodle, Froodle! “Hee, hee, hahah, oh yeah!”  ♥

From a Reading Specialist’s point of view: “Nonsense word fluency measures a student’s ability to decode individual phonemes and then blend them together to read. They’re an indicator of a student’s progress in acquiring early alphabetic principle skills. By using nonsense words, we can find out whether a child knows the most common sound for letters (letter–sound correspondence), and whether a child can blend the sounds to read words he has never seen before.”

Extensions for the book: 

Primary

I Have – Who Has Nonsense Word Games

Pair it up with this non-fiction book:  About Birds for Compare /Contrast activities Non-Fiction- About Birds Rime Family Chart

Onset & Rime Slide http://www.readingrockets.org/content/pdfs/P_026a.pdf

Construct a Word http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/construct-word-30003.html

Teaching About Birds in the Classroom: http://www.birdsleuth.org/teaching-bird-id/

Bird Activities: http://www.mpmschoolsupplies.com/ideas/bird/

Books About Birds: https://delightfulchildrensbooks.com/2011/07/08/birds/

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