Information Text- What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

Part One
Book Information: Jenkins, S. & Page, R. (2003). What do you do with a tail like this? Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
Genre: information text
Grade level: Kindergarten - 2nd grade

Part Two 

Thoughts About Craft: I found that this book's illustrations were very interesting. The book discusses animals, and the pictures are pretty simple. Although simple, the illustrations are very textured. The animals look like they are put together by pieces of paper, ripped, cut and  recycled. The fur on the animals look like real material or rip the paper in a way that make it look like fur. It would have been easy to just use a solid picture of an animal, but this was a fun and interesting way to show the animals.

Part Three

Critique: Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The information is simple, but it gives the reader a little important information about each animal. The book discusses different animals and what the different animals use their noses,ears, tails,eyes,mouths, and feet. What I really liked about the book is the informational index in the back of the book. There is a paragraph on each animal that was discussed in the book with more in depth detail about each animal. This gives students a larger amount of information about the animals.

Part Four
Lesson Sketch:
Grade: Kindergarten
Lesson Objective:
           Students will be able to:
                        - Discuss what animals use their body parts for
                        - Practice listening and behavior while group reading
                        * Based on Common Core standard CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.10
Lesson Outline: 
1. Teacher is to read the story out loud with the class
2.Teacher will discuss and engage students in a discussion about each animal 
3. Students will draw an animal from the book, including what body part they learned about 

Question: 
1. Depending on the page, ask if students know the animal that is being discussed. If not, describe the animal further to students
2. What are some of your favorite animals?
3. Have you ever seen any of these animals? At the zoo? in your backyard? in the wild?
4. Do any of these animals seem scary?
5. Depending on animals, ask if humans can do some of these things

Outside Sources:  
 1. Here is a good source for teachers who are teaching/reading this book to students. http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=7251&a=1
2. Here is the authors wbepage. http://www.stevejenkinsbooks.com/
3. This is a video of a different Steve Jenkins book, but it is also about animals and it discusses his process of writing and the illustration process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJ1wtHSPc4