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Students Names:

Azza Khalifa Al Azizi

Rouda Ahmed Al Neyadi

Fatmah Mubarak Al Khyeli

Mahra Nasser Al Shamsi

Instructor Name:
Antoinette Wiseman

Course Name:
EDU 30403 Learning through Literature
Name: Mahra Nasser

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Title Come on, Daisy!

Author’s name Jane Simmons

Illustrator’s name Jane Simmons

Date of (original) Original publication 1998

publication

Genre & Come on, Daisy! is a Fantasy fiction book.

characteristics The reason why “Come on, Daisy” book is a fantasy fiction book is because
the book includes animals that behave like humans and show human
emotions. Fantasy includes mother’s duck talking has a baby duckling name,
Daisy. Daisy does not follow her mother and does not pay attention to her
mother.
Why is it
appropriate and ● Why is it age appropriate?
interesting to 4-5
year old children? It’s appropriate in early childhood because the cover page has Daisy playing
on the lily pad and chasing after the dragonfly, and you can see the mother
duck in the background looking for Daisy. Come on, Daisy is full of various
colors, it has different elements of design like lines and shapes. For example,
Come on, Daisy’s story has many designs like the horizontal plant in the
picture are curved lines that show that they are moving. Daisy jumps on the
lily pad, the lily pad is heart-shaped.

● Appropriate language level?

The language is appropriate because the story has simple and very short
sentences that children can read easily but it has some difficult words like,
shivered, stirred, and scrambled. The teacher can use CROWD strategies to
makes difficult words easy. For example, ask the children questions or can use
the picture to explain these difficult words.

● What makes it interesting to 4-5 year olds?

Come on, Daisy story will make the children excited to read and to know
what happens in the story. Come on, Daisy story delivers adventure to capture
children's interest because it has a lot of different animals, such as fish, frogs,
butterflies, and dragonflies. The colors also attract children to read the story
and the sounds of animals will make the children cheerful to imitating sounds
in the class like the sounds of frogs and duck.
How does it *Does it support the teaching of:
support teaching ● Language?
and learning?
(Identify the LO Come on, Daisy! Addresses language for early childhood learners such as
where possible) having a simple language that children can easily read and repeat words like
“closer, and closer, and closer”. Children understand the story through
pictures even if they cannot read the word. For example, the words
dragonflies and riverbank. Children see Daisy playing with dragonflies and
they will think who is Daisy playing with?

● Social/cultural values?

Come on, Daisy story has a social and cultural value of the UAE that children
are taught to stay close to their parents while being in public and not walk
away from the mother.

● Specific skills?

Come on, Daisy story addresses specific skills that children can learn through
reading stories. Firstly, auditory skills children can learn the sounds of the
animals like the sound of the frog is “plop”. Secondly, they can improve their
visual skills in which the children can understand the story and learn different
colors by looking at the picture. Thirdly, they can improve their reading skills.

● Concepts, ideas, knowledge (science, math, history, geography, …

K1NS1 states the forwards’ number sequence from 1-10 in Arabic and
English.
K1NS3 count sets of up to 10 objects using one-to-one correspondence.
Come on, Daisy story addresses concepts, ideas, and knowledge in early
childhood. Math skills where children learn how to count, for example, Daisy
sees four butterflies. Row counting of the butterflies and ​then the teacher can
teach the children one to one correspondence.​ Children learn different types of
animals who live by and on the lake by the riverbank. For example, Daisy,
Mamma Duck, fish, and frogs.
 ● Ethics/morality?

Come on, Daisy story addresses ethics for example when the mother warns
Daisy to stay close to her mother. The moral of the story is that children
should listen to their mother because if they separate from their mother, the
children will get hurt and will be lost. When the children want to go anywhere
they should let their mother know where you are going, in this way your
mother will not worried about you. Distancing CROWD because the children
should stay with their mother and not separate from their mother.

● Creativity, expression, communication:

The teacher communicates with the children to know if they understand or

not. The teacher will engage the children's attention to the story by asking
them questions, letting the children communicate, collaborate and critical
thinking with their peers to answer the questions. For example, Why Daisy
didn't go with her mother? Where does daisy go?.

● Psychology (emotions):

Come on, Daisy story addresses psychology such as children are excited while
the teacher reads the story and they will want to know what will happen to
Daisy and if she found her mother.

Potential
The potential challenges involved in exploiting the Come on, Daisy story
challenges involved
within UAE schools in early childhood, that children can’t understand the word
in exploiting this
“riverbank” and they don’t know what river is because we don't have rivers in
book with 4-5 year
the UAE.
olds in UAE
schools

Simmons, J. (1998). ​Come on, Daisy.​ London: Orchard.

References:
Name: Mahra Nasser

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Title Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Five Little Monkeys)

Author’s name Elleen Christelow

Illustrator’s name Elleen Christelow

Date of (original) Original publication 1852

publication

Genre & This is a Poetry book. Poetry book emphasizes on the aesthetics of language
characteristics because “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” story uses different
techniques like repetition, rhythm, and rhyme.
For example, the repetition technique in the “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the
Bed“ story is five little monkeys jumped on the bed!” One fell off and bumped his
head.
Why is it ● Why is it age appropriate?
appropriate and
interesting to 4-5 “Five Little Monkeys” is an appropriate story for early childhood because
year old children? the story has Monkeys that are playing on the bed, it can grab children's
interest to know what will happen to the Monkeys. These Monkeys were
colored in different and vibrant colors to attract children. The children
would be interested in the cover because they can see the monkeys
jumping on the bed and they want to know what’s happening.

● Appropriate language level?

The language is appropriate in early childhood because it has simple

words and it has some vocabulary that shows action such as jumping,
calling, and falling. Five Little Monkeys has some difficult words like
bumped.

● What makes it interesting to 4-5 year olds:

“Five Little Monkeys” story will make the children interested because it
contains a song that children can memorize easily. The song in the “Five
Little Monkeys” story is repetitive and easy to remember like bloom’s
taxonomy’s first level which is remembering.

● The song of the Five Little Monkeys story is:

“Five Little Monkeys Jumped on the Bed!” One fell off and bumped his
head. Mama called the doctor. The doctor said, "no more monkeys
jumping on the bed".
How does it *Does it support the teaching of:
support teaching ● Language?
and learning?
(Identify the LO Five Little Monkeys story addresses language that is in the story is a
where possible) repetitive language in which the children could memorize the song and
sing along when reading.
The language in Five Little Monkeys’ story is easy to memorize and the
pictures of the story support the song’s words to help children understand
the story.

● Social/cultural values?

“Five Little Monkeys” story addresses cultural values in UAE society such
as not to jump on the bed because it’s dangerous for us and it can hurt.
Also, children should listen to their mothers because in the UAE and
globally have a value to always respect and listen to our mothers. To make
it more UAE, we can use Arabic seating with pillows that they jump on
and fall.

● Specific skills:

“Five Little Monkeys” story addresses specific skills that children can
learn through reading stories. Firstly, auditory skills children can develop
listening skills through listening to the teacher while singing the song for
Five Little Monkeys’ story. Secondly, they can improve their visual skills
in which the children can understand the story and learn different colors by
looking at the picture. Thirdly, they can improve their reading skills.

● Concepts, ideas, knowledge (science, math, history, geography, …)

KLW1 compare and group living and nonliving things.

K2NS1 states the forwards’ number sequence from 1-20 in Arabic and
English.
K2NS2 states the backward number sequence from 1-20 in Arabic and
English.
 “Five Little Monkeys” story addresses concepts, ideas, and knowledge in
early childhood. Children can learn the name of the animal.
Children can learn new vocabulary like, jumping, bumped and bed which
is literacy. Children count how many Monkeys in this story which is math
numeracy.

● Ethics/morality?

“Five Little Monkeys” story moral that is addressed in the story is that
children should always follow directions because there is a reason that we
have rules.

● Creativity, expression, communication

Five Little Monkeys' story addresses creativity, expression, and

communication such as, the teacher asks the children about the story and
can use different kinds of questions like open-ended questions and Wh
questions that make the children think. The children could collaborate with
each other to answer the questions that the teacher asks. For example, Why
Monkeys’ are jumping on the bed? What happened to the Monkeys when
they jumped on the bed? CROWD because the teacher is using the “Wh”
questions.

● ​Psychology (emotions)

“Five Little Monkeys” story addresses psychology such as children will

be excited and happy when they sing the song of Five Little Monkeys. The
children will have fun listening to the story because it has a song that is
catchy. In addition, the story has a funny ending that the children would
not expect. Which is Monkeys are sleeping because they fell off and
bumped her head. Mother is jumped on the bed after the Monkeys sleep.
Potential
The potential challenges involved in exploiting the Five Little Monkeys Jumping
challenges involved
on the Bed story within UAE schools in early childhood, that children can’t
in exploiting this
understand the word “bumped” and they don’t know what bumped is because the
book with 4-5 year
children know the word “bumped” as “hit”.
olds in UAE
schools

To make it more UAE, we can use Arabic seating with pillows that they jump on
and fall.

Christelow, E. (1852). ​Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.​ New York:
References:
Clarion.

Dave and Ava - Nursery Rhymes and Baby Songs. (2015, November 5). Five
Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed| Nursery Rhymes and Baby Songs | Dave and
Ava. Retrieved from​ ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFRFXawdHE4​.
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Title Dear Zoo

Author’s name Rod Campbell

Illustrator’s name Rod Campbell

Date of (original) Original publication 1982

publication

Genre & This is a Realistic fiction book because this story could have taken place in the
characteristics present or the past. These animals live in a place that is real. The events of the
story include questions that readers could ask in everyday life. For example, the
readers can ask themselves a question like if the elephant is dangerous for us?
Can the elephant live in homes like us?
Why is it
appropriate and ● Why is it age-appropriate?
interesting to It’s appropriate for this age because it’s colorful, has different animals,
4-5-year-old animals’ pictures that help children to understand the story by seeing its
children? pictures. Dear Zoo story is also interactive in the sense that the children
could open the flap to reveal the animal that is in the container.
“Kinesthetic hands-on”.

● Appropriate language level?

Dear Zoo story has simple sentences that children can read easily. In
addition, Dear Zoo story has some difficult words like fierce, grumpy and
naughty but they can look at the picture to understand these words. Dear
Zoo story includes descriptive words that the student could learn but they
are a bit hard for this level of children.

● ​What makes it interesting to 4-5-year-olds

The thing that makes this book interesting is that the pictures tell the story,
while the animal’s name is not known, and tell the children to lift the flap
to reveal the animal’s name. Dear Zoo story has flaps that you can lift and
them to reveal the animals. Dear Zoo book is interactive because of the
flaps which make it interesting for the children.
How does it *Does it support the teaching of:
support teaching ● Language?
and learning? The story supports the language values in UAE society because this book
(Identify the LO is easy for them to read because most of the words are part of their
where possible) sight words and that will benefit greatly to their language by knowing
more vocabulary, for example, the names of the animals like
Kangaroos, Monkeys, and so on.

● Social/cultural values?
Dear Zoo story supports the social and cultural aspect because it has
animals that could be found in the UAE, for example, Camel, Snake, and
Lizard could in the desert. The other animals like Lions, Giraffes, and
Monkey could be found at Al Ain Zoo.

● Specific skills?
Dear Zoo story addresses specific skills values such as children can learn
specific skills through reading stories, for example, visual skills by seeing
different animals. In the UAE, teachers can act this story by using
puppets. Children can imagination or thinking of this animal a pet or not
and they can understand more while the teacher acting this story.

● Concepts, ideas, knowledge (science, math, history,

geography, …)
K2SGD1 manipulate, identify and sort familiar 2D and 3D shapes in
exploration and play, and recognize them in everyday contexts.
K2MDM1 compares and describes the length of two objects.
KLW2 identifies and compares the external features of living things that
make them different.

Dear Zoo story addresses concepts, ideas, and details that help children
learn mathematical shapes like square, triangle, and cylinder. Also, they
can recognize the different sizes of animals like tall and short.
 ● Ethics/morality?
Dear Zoo story addresses ethics for example when the author warns us not
to keep dangerous animals. The moral of the Dear Zoo story is that
children should keep a pet animal like a dog because this animal is lovely
and friendly to us.

● Creativity, expression, communication

K1SGD1: manipulate familiar 2D and 3D shapes in exploration and play,
and recognize them in everyday contexts.

Dear Zoo story addresses creativity, expression, communicates ideas such

as children thinking about how to make animal models. Also, they can
draw animals by using different techniques of visual art like painting and
drawing. The teacher asks the children “Wh” questions to engage the
children and interact with each other. For example, Where do the animals
live? Do you think to keep this pet?. The teacher can also ask the children
about the shapes and colors of containers such as What color of the
container? What shape is the container?. Children can create an animal
mask by using paper plates and craft materials.

● Psychology (emotions)
Dear Zoo story addresses psychology which is that children are going to
be excited to know what is going to be under the box and they will be
guessing what they think is under the container. The children are going to
wonder what animal is going to be perfect for the owner.
Children can imitate the sounds and acting the animals that are in the Dear
Zoo story. Our pets do not live our as at home, they live on our farm.
There was a show in Dubai which was “​Dear Zoo comes to Dubai
theatres”. Dear Zoo, which was presented in the UAE theaters, aims at
participating children and listening to the songs that were presented during
their reading of the story to attract children. ​Children learn the habits of
animals and how they live in the wild. (​All, A. F. 2019).
Potential This book is a very good book that does not need to be changed to suit the
challenges involved children of the UAE.
in exploiting this It is a perfect book to be used in the UAE schools especially in KG classes
book with 4-5 year because the children are learning about the different animals.
olds in UAE
schools

Campbell, R. (1982). ​Dear Zoo.​ London: Penguin.

References:
All, A. F. (2019, May 5). Dear Zoo Comes To Dubai Theatres - Art For All
Children's. Retrieved from
https://www.artforall.ae/dear-zoo-comes-to-dubai-theatres/​.