Title: Animals on Board
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrator: R.W. Alley
Recommended Grade: K-2nd
Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Number sense and addition. Kindergarten count to tell the number of objects. Count to answer how many.
Summary: This is a math literary story book. Main character, a boy name Jill track driver. He is carrying a special load. As he driving down the road he saw a animal loaded track passing him. He started to count them. He saw more track were passing him then he stared to add them up.At the end of the story Jill come to his final stop where he saw all kind of animal was there.
Rating: * * * * * I highly recommended this book because it has many mathematical connections for students. This story book provides a mathematical thinking such as addition and group counting.
Classroom Ideas: This book could be used several mathematical topics such as counting, addition, sorting. Kindergarten could used for group counting and sorting. students could sort same animal in one group. First and second grade students could use for one digit addition. This book also could be use for read aloud.
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