Pirates Don’t Change Diapers
Book: Pirates Don’t Change Diapers
Author: Melinda Long
Age: Early Elementary
Description: While Jeremy’s mom is running an errand, his old pirate friends come for a visit and are forced to help Jeremy take care of his baby sister.
Goals/Concepts:
- Narrative Language and Retelling
- Reading Body Language
- Figurative Language
- Prediction
Why I like this book: The illustrations are amazing. Kids love the humorous story. Who doesn’t love silly pirates?
Ideas for use:
- Great narrative structure for the discussing and teaching the Story Grammar Marker elements(clear characters, setting, initiating event, events, resolution, etc.)
- Use with “Braidy” (www.mindwingconcepts.com) to help students retell the story. A good example of multiple “kickoffs” (1)pirates show up, 2)can’t find the map) See the Mindwings concepts website for more information on this amazing narrative tool.
- Examples of multiple meaning words/figurative language (rock, babysitter). See if kids can come up with other similar words (i.e. duck, carpool, etc.) Have them draw “both” meanings.
- Discuss the amazing body language in this story (i.e. boy holding stinking diaper). Draw thinking bubbles- what are they thinking? Why? How can you tell?
- Have kids act out the body language and the story. Could use a pretend play boat and people, or have the kids act themselves.
Submitted by: Meghan G. Graham M.S. CCC-SLP
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