Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Schools Matter: "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins

Schools Matter: "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins:

"Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins

"Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins

As a high school English teacher for nearly two decades, I came to embrace a need to offer students a wide range of lenses for interacting with and learning from many different texts, but I also learned that coming to read and re-read, to write and re-write the world is both a powerful and disorienting experience for young people. So a strategy I now use and encourage other teachers to implement is reading and discussing children's literature, picture books, while expanding the critical lenses readers have in their toolbox.

My favorite book for this activity is Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type. This work by Doreen Cronin and art by Betsy Lewin (view in animated format) presents a clever and humorous narrative about Farmer Brown and his