Animal Shenanigans: Twenty-four Creative, Interactive Story Programs for Preschoolers

Rob Reid

ISBN-13: 9780838912713

248 pages 
 6 x 9 
 2014

Featuring our four-legged, no-legged, winged, scaled, and feathered friends, this new series of story program lesson plans from bestselling author Reid will help librarians and teachers unleash kids’ curiosity and learning. Using a combination of high-quality picture books, fingerplays, movement activities, songs, and games, these ready-to-use, mix-and-match lesson plans focus on universal themes such as family, friendship, and school—but with animal protagonists. Useful for both school and public libraries, for teaching as well as collection development, Reid’s book

• Includes two dozen complete 30-minute story programs for preschoolers that can also be adapted for K_2 children
• Offers 70 new _in-betweenî activities such as fingerplays and movement activities, songs and musical activities, chants, creative dramatics, imagination exercises, and more
• Provides alternate book lists at the end of each story plan so readers can further customize their own storytimes
• Gives tips on how to energize presentations and encourage audience participation