To Root, to Toot, to Parachute

This book takes brings the basic definition of a verb to life. Through a sing song rhyming verse it provides many examples of verbs, including to be verbs. Throughout the text the verbs are highlighted to focus the reader's attention on the verbs. There is definite flow to the book and is an great read aloud for modeling fluency. This book is part of series on parts of speech. It could be used as part of any unit on parts of speech. It is a short read but clearly gets provides a definition student's will remember. It is fun and engaging.

This book does what it's intended to do rather well. I liked the rhyming poetry and the simplicty of the text.

Summary: This book uses poems to describe what a verb is. Throughout the book there are endless poems. The words that are used for rhyming are highlighted as verbs. The verse lines that associated the verb helps explain its action.

Personal Reaction: I really liked this book. It was such a cute way to explain verbs. It would definitely come in handy for any children learning verbs. This book should be a must for any teacher who will have to teach both poetry and language arts.

Classroom extension:
1) This was created for the specific reason of helping students identify verbs, that being said, I think this would be a great way to introduce verbs in the classroom.
2) This book would also still be great for introducing poetry as well, many show more students who learn about poetry think the words have to look the same, but this book could teach them that that’s not always the case show less

Discusses the definition of verb and gives many illustrated examples. Includes rhyming scheme throughout to keep reader engaged. Informational book because it does not carry a plot, but instead informs the reader of what a verb is and its many uses. The setting is very general throughout this book. There is not a specific setting, so therefore it didn't play a vital role in the story. Media: colored pencils

Fun to read. Does a great job of showing what a verb is and how it is used in a sentence. The illustrations are colorful, silly and aid the text. The text highlights the verbs in a variety of colors.

This book is all about verbs and it is a lot like the nouns book I read. I think the book gives enough information for the reader to understand what a verb is but I think it keeps verbs interesting. The fun rhyme and flow of the book makes this very enjoyable and educational too.

The following website is the authors website where you can find more information on this book and other books by him as well:

http://www.author-illustr-source.com/briancleary.htm

This book has rhyming text and fun illustrations of cats presenting different examples of verbs. For age groups 7-9 or grade 2-4.