This book is a great book to do when studying about the zoo. It is a great book to read to reinforce rhyming and repetition with the children.

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A Giraffe and a Half is a poetry book that is about a boy and a giraffe. This giraffe has lots of funny things that keep happening to him. It keeps adding more and more interesting points through each rhyme.

I really enjoyed reading this story book, it has good illustrations that show what is going on with the silly giraffe. Shel Silverstein is a great writer, and I love reading all of his books.

One activity a teacher could do with the poem is go through the story and have the rhyming words all on different flashcards. The students could take one of the flashcards, say with the word rat and match it with the other flashcard that says hat. This is also a good way of retelling the story. For a art project you could also make giraffes and make the spots on him with rhyming words.That is a way to incorporate rhyming words with the key character, the giraffe. ( )

A Giraffe and a Half is a book that is a poem. It is about a little boy and a giraffe. The giraffe has many funny things that happen to him. As the book goes along, all the things that happened to him get undone.

I found this book to be pretty neat. I liked the way it goes all the way through and at the end the giraffe turns out to be exactly like in the beginning. The drawings are cute. I think young children would find this book entertaining. It is a little silly, and I like that.

I would use this book as part of a lesson on poetry. I would also like to use it with a wildlife lesson. I would like to discuss the poetry with the children and we would write a poem as a class. We would write a poem about another animal

Excellent book by Shel Silverstein ( )

A go book to teach when studying the ending sounds to simple words.