“Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type” is a great book for a Readers’ Theater activity, as you can see from out podcast. However, I wanted to point out to all of you just how many notions this books presents to young emergent readers.
This story can be implemented for several different content areas. The book presents and interesting introduction to conflict resolution. The cows desire blankets which they are not being provided with and deny the farmer of milk when he does not comply with their demands. With a natural third party both the farmer and cows reach an agreement and both receive something they desired out of the situation.
I think this can show children that in life everyone has disagreements, and sometimes in order to solve a problem each side needs to give and take a little. A third part can help in resolution. Conflict resolution needs to be taught to children. They need to learn that disagreements do not need to be harsh or even violent. This text can help them see that conflict can be resolved peacefully. In addition, it would a great read for a unit on farms.
A website with other lesson ideas for this book that you bloggers may find useful!
http://www.teachingheart.net/clickclackmoo.html
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