Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Bill Martin Jr. wrote Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? after the phrase popped into his hide while riding on a train in 1966. And with that phrase in mind, he joined forces with Eric Carle to create a repetitive text that has stood the test of time. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help the earliest of readers understand why authors write books.

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Making Connections with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Children will enthusiastically share their connections with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? when you use this lesson plan and set of resources to support their thinking about the text. Help students make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections while reading this highly engaging text.

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Making Predictions with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is the gold standard when it comes to teaching beginning readers about making predictions. Use the clues in the text to help readers anticipate the pictures that will follow on the next page. Through engaging with the repetitive text, readers will begin to understand how to make predictions based on what they read.

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Retelling & Summarizing with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help your beginning readers retell Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By prompting readers to recall which animals they have seen and by discussing how the teacher and children differ from the other characters in the book, you will begin to lay the foundation for more sophisticated retellings with other books.

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Visualizing with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? provides the perfect scaffold for visualizing. By providing the reader with a clue about what they will see on the next page, Bill Martin Jr. makes it easy for students to visualize the animals before they see them. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help beginning readers visualize the text and understand how making mental images can contribute to their enjoyment of the book.

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High-Frequency Words with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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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.

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Vocabulary Connections with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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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.

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Comprehension Assessment with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Running Record with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Comprehension with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Spanish)

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High-Frequency Words with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Vocabulary Connections with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Comprehension Assessment with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Running Record with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Comprehension with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Spanish)

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