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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.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a picture book written with simple words, including color and animal words. The colorful illustrations help the reader decode the text. While the story has no plot, it has predictable, repetitive text. On each 2 page spread, various colored animals are asked what they see. Each animal responds to help the reader predict what picture comes next. This pattern holds until a teacher appears and sees children, who, in turn, review all of the characters introduced throughout the book.

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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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Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of 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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Identifying the Author’s Purpose 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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About the Book

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Title: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Author: Bill Martin Jr.

Genre: Fantasy

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ISBN: 9780805002010

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A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft yellow duck-- all parade across the pages of this delightful picture book classic, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Children will immediately respond to Eric Carle's flat, boldly colored collages. Combined with Bill Martin's singsong text, they create unforgettable images of these endearing animals.

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

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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

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

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