Use Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This classic picture book uses simple, repetitive text and vibrant illustrations to engage beginning readers. Through predictable patterns and familiar color and animal words, students build confidence in decoding and predicting text.
Each page invites readers to anticipate what comes next, reinforcing sequencing, observation, and early comprehension skills. The included lesson plans and activities make this timeless story an excellent resource for supporting reading fluency, pattern recognition, and oral language development.
Perfect for early readers and lessons on colors, animals, and sequencing!
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. as a springboard for instruction focused on color words.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how color words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with high-frequency words like color words.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
