One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is a classic Dr. Seuss book that I remember from when I was a child. There is no real story plot just a bunch of imagination gone wild.
I do love this story because it is a classic but as a teacher I don't think it would be useful in the classroom and here is why: 1) It is too long and I don't think it will hold the attention of the children, and 2) It has a lot of nonsense words.
When choosing a text to read to students the time limitations are always a factor. There are time limitations on the amount of time we have to spend on lessons and time limitations on students attention spans. With taking these two factors into consideration I do not think that this text would be a wise choice for what it could teach. It does have good concepts like counting and color recognition but no enough to be useful in the classroom.
I also think that with the use of nonsense words like "wump" and "Yink" it reverses the concept of comprehension that teachers strive for when teaching emergent readers. It does help with teaching children to decode words but not overall comprehension.
I think that this book is geared more toward parents for at home reading. I think that it works well as a bedtime story.
Nicole I ahve to agree with you that it is a great book for parents to read aloud at home. We read my boys that book and it's one my husband and I still have parts of it memorized.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lengthy book and would take up a lot of time to read it.