You can find a full set of discussion cards in the I Want My Hat Back Activity Bundle or as a separate pack. Publishers Weekly (starred review) I Want My Hat Back is a marvelous book in the true dictionary sense of 'marvel': it is a wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes child laugh and adult chuckle, and. Is there a difference between the rabbit lying and the bear lying to the squirrel? If so, in what way? Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for I Want My Hat Back at the best online prices at.What if the rabbit didn’t steal the bear’s hat?.Do you think the consequences of stealing the hat were appropriate? Why or why not?.Why do you think Jon Klassen leaves some pages wordless?.Why do you think the illustrator made p.Why do you think the deer asking the bear about its hat is an important part of the story?.What would have been a different way for the bear to deal with the rabbit stealing its hat?.What is your opinion of how the bear dealt with the rabbit once it found its hat?.Why do you think the rabbit stole the bear's hat? Why did it lie to the bear about taking its hat?.How did the illustrations help you understand the emotions and thoughts of the characters in I Want My Hat Back?.You can also introduce different genres, authors and illustrators. You can model reading habits, strategies, fluency, tone, and eye contact. They decided the rabbit's words are red because he is wearing the red hat.Read-aloud sessions are a wonderful way for children to understand the connection between written text and spoken language. Notice how the colors change depending on which character is speaking? My kids also realized that the text matches the color of the speaking character.until you get to the rabbit.

(Summary from Candlewick Press.)ĭay One: The Text The first day we look at this book we focused on the text. Told completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor- and winks at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages thrilled to be in on the joke.

But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear’s memory and renews his search with a vengeance. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Let's start with This Is Not My Hat, a 2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book. What? My kids writing dialogue? Yes, your kids can write dialogue. Hats off to Jon Klassen for creating two amazing books! I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat look simple at first glance, but they are packed with possibilities for helping your kiddos infer, question, study details in illustrations and even write dialogue.

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