The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant

Rhyming Procedure 1. Read The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant . Ask children to identify what the Hungry Thing is ordering when they hear the nonsense rhyme . For example, when the Hungry Thing orders bapple moose to drink, children should say apple juice . If you don’t have the book, tell the story using your own food selections . You can also find a read aloud online . 2. Show children a serving tray you prepared that contains a variety of food selections . Identify the items by briefly talking about each one . Pretend to be the Hungry Thing, and ask for volunteers to pretend to be servers . Request an item from the tray using a nonsense rhyme . The servers, with their peers’ assistance, identify the item and hand it to you . Note: If plastic foods are not readily available, you may use pictures of food from magazines or use the picture cards available in the Digital Resources . 3. Offer children the opportunity to play the Hungry Thing . Provide rhyming clues as needed . Enjoy the activity, and laugh together about the silliness of the nonsense rhymes . Differentiate or Extend ▲ Make the materials and book accessible in a play area so that children may reenact the story and invent their own versions . Allow students to listen to a read aloud of the book independently using QR codes in a listening centre . ▲ Place fewer or more items on the tray, depending on the children’s abilities to identify what you are requesting . The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant Objective Students will produce rhyming words . Overview After sharing the book The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant, in which a Hungry Thing orders food using nonsense words, the teacher shows children how to use rhyme to determine what the creature wants to eat . Materials The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant by Ann Seidler and Jan Slepian (1993); plastic food items; serving trays; pictures of food items available in the Digital Resources (optional) School-Home Connection Share the online read aloud of the book with families, or post it on your class website . Send sample take-out menus home with children, and encourage family members to talk about the menu selections . Children can pretend to order an item using rhyming words . Communicate to families with the letter on the next page . Remind families that their children should be familiar with the items sample sample 74

Rhyming The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant (cont.) Dear Families: Today I read a book called The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant by Ann Seidler and Jan Slepian . (Ask your child about this funny book!) Then, we played a game . We pretended to be in a restaurant, and we gave rhyming clues to tell our server what we wanted to order . For example, I wanted to order some apple juice, so I told children I wanted bapple moose . Playing with language is important because it increases children’s sensitivity to the sound structure of our language—an important foundation for reading . You can play this game at home . Ask your child to provide rhyming clues to let you know what he or she would like for dinner . Then, you provide the rhyming clues and see if your child can guess what will be on the menu . Play the game only as long as your child is interested, and have fun! Sincerely, A Theaghlacha: Inniu, léigh mé leabhar darb ainm The Hungry Thing le Ann Seidler agus Jan Slepian . (Cuir ceist ar do pháiste faoin leabhar greannmhar seo!) Ina dhiaidh sin, d’imir muid cluiche . Bunaithe ar leideanna ríme a tugadh dóibh, thug na páistí buille faoi thuairim maidir le hainmneacha roinnt bianna atá comónta . Mar shampla, dá ndéarfainnse go raibh roinnt ‘napes’ agam, thabharfadh siad buille faoi thuairim gur ‘grapes’ a bhí agam . Dá ndéarfainnse go raibh ‘bandwich’ agam, thabharfadh siad buille faoi thuairim gur ‘sandwich’ a bhí agam . Ansin, chruthaigh siad lónta bréige dá gcuid féin . Baineann tábhacht le bheith ag spraoi le teanga toisc go gcuireann sé leis an tuiscint a bhíonn ag páistí ar struchtúr fuaime ár dteanga – bunchloch atá tábhachtach don léitheoireacht . Is féidir leatsa an cluiche seo a imirt sa bhaile . Iarr ar do pháiste na ‘deas’ (peas) a thabhairt duit nó iarr air/uirthi ar mhaith leis/ léi go ndéanfá an ‘rilk’ (milk) a dhoirteadh isteach . Ansin, lig do do pháiste na focail ríme amaideacha a chumadh iad féin go bhfeice sibh an bhfuil a fhios agatsa cén rud atá i gceist . Imir an cluiche an fhad agus atá suim ag do pháiste ann, agus bain spraoi as! Le meas, sample