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National Education Association – Teacher’s Top 100 books for children. Let me know what do you do when you read this book with your students on the comments below! Here you can download a lesson plan for reading From Head to Toe with your children 🙂 In case you are interested in learning some more about the process of designing this amazing picture book, take a look at this link where Carle himself explains the creating process. Simon says as they’ll have seen some body parts and movements throughout the book, you can ask them to reproduce a movement from the book or touch some body part as a Simon Says play.

Miming game you can ask them to select one animal from the book and mime that to their classmates, they shall guess what animal it is and say the movement in English.

You can ask them to select one animal from the book, require they say it in English as well as the animal’s colour and let them paint with their little index fingers.

Make a poster with the animals presented in the book.

The variety of activities based on this book are limited only to your creativity boundaries, and I’m going to list just the simplest ones: Usually when I use this book in my lessons I like to involve them in the topic by singing Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, or maybe a drilling game with the song One Little Finger. With the concept of simplicity in every picture, as all Eric Carle’s books, you can develop your students’ visual literacy, their body awareness, as well as vocabulary (body parts, animals, verbs of movement), the book itself suggests the usage of language patterns such as can you do it? Yes I can do it, as a way to practice the target language. Each animal introduces itself by saying “ I’m… And I (do something) my (some body part), can you do it?” in response the child imitates the movement and says “ Yes, I can do it”. The whole book is about moving your students’ body every page a child encounters a different animal making a different movement. A simple reading of the book is enough to prompt a funny activity with your children The book’s interactive reading approach will make your students feel pleasure while reading and will also be easy for you to create after-reading activities. Here I’m going to share with you some ideas and a very simple lesson plan for reading From Head to toe, an amazing book by Carle that deals with body parts vocabulary, animals and movements. Eric Carle and his mascot ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The most famous of his works is The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which was ranked in the Teacher’s Top 100 books for children by NEA (National Education Association). Eric Carle’s works are classics among picture-books for children, his collage illustrations and super simple plots not only attracts children’s eyes and attention but also prompts them to practice language in a very funny way.

Eric carle from head to toe board book