[Picture Book] The crocodile and the dentist
[Teaching steps]
1. Give students the pages of the picture book to ask them to sequence the pictures first.
2. The group leader should lead the other group members to read the story together to get the main gist of the picture book.
3. The teacher shows them the correct sequence of the picture book.
4. Students, 3 in one group, read the script of the story adapted to be the one in the form of Readers Theater.
Students' clips 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
5. Story map is used to guide students to comprehend the story of the picture book.
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6. Shel Silverstein's poem The Crocodile's Toothache is read by students together.
(video) (video 2) (video 3)
The Crocodile's Toothache Shel Silverstein
The Crocodile
Went to the dentist
And sat down in the chair,
And the dentist said, "Now tell me, sir,
Why does it hurt and where?"
And the Crocodile said, "I'll tell you the truth,
I have a terrible ache in my tooth,"
And he opened his jaws so wide, so wide,
The the dentist, he climbed right inside,
And the dentist laughed, "Oh isn't this fun?"
As he pulled the teeth out, one by one.
And the Crocodile cried, "You're hurting me so!
Please put down your pliers and let me go."
But the dentist laughed with a Ho Ho Ho,
And he said, "I still have twelve to go-
Oops, that's the wrong one, I confess,
But what's one crocodile's tooth more or less?"
Then suddenly, the jaws went SNAP,
And the dentist was gone, right off the map,
And where he went one could only guess...
To North or South or East or West...
He left no forwarding address.
But what's one dentist, more or less?
7. Students create another dialogue between the crocodile and the dentist.
The crocodile and the dentist
[PPT]
[Teaching steps]
1. Give students the pages of the picture book to ask them to sequence the pictures first.
2. The group leader should lead the other group members to read the story together to get the main gist of the picture book.
3. The teacher shows them the correct sequence of the picture book.
4. Students, 3 in one group, read the script of the story adapted to be the one in the form of Readers Theater.
Students' clips 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
5. Story map is used to guide students to comprehend the story of the picture book.
6. Shel Silverstein's poem The Crocodile's Toothache is read by students together.
(video) (video 2) (video 3)
The Crocodile's Toothache Shel Silverstein
The Crocodile
Went to the dentist
And sat down in the chair,
And the dentist said, "Now tell me, sir,
Why does it hurt and where?"
And the Crocodile said, "I'll tell you the truth,
I have a terrible ache in my tooth,"
And he opened his jaws so wide, so wide,
The the dentist, he climbed right inside,
And the dentist laughed, "Oh isn't this fun?"
As he pulled the teeth out, one by one.
And the Crocodile cried, "You're hurting me so!
Please put down your pliers and let me go."
But the dentist laughed with a Ho Ho Ho,
And he said, "I still have twelve to go-
Oops, that's the wrong one, I confess,
But what's one crocodile's tooth more or less?"
Then suddenly, the jaws went SNAP,
And the dentist was gone, right off the map,
And where he went one could only guess...
To North or South or East or West...
He left no forwarding address.
But what's one dentist, more or less?
7. Students create another dialogue between the crocodile and the dentist.
The crocodile and the dentist