Reading, Counting, and Crabs!
We have two books featuring crabs for this month's early literacy post!
One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab: A Counting Feet Book by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre, illustrated by Randy Cecil
This is a cute counting book about feet! It introduces possible new animals to children and shows how many feet each animal has.
One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab helps children with talking and reading, which are essential skills for school readiness and learning to read.
This book builds print awareness, especially of numbers. The animals and the number of legs each has builds vocabulary and background knowledge. This is a great book to read to any child who likes the natural world and is learning to count.
Clem and Crab written and illustrated by Fiona Lumbers
Clem likes to spend her weekends at the beach. She works to clean up debris and trash that humans leave behind. During one of her clean-up missions Clem spots a small red crab and they become friends.
This book promotes talking and reading, along with print awareness, letter knowledge, background knowledge and vocabulary. Clem and Crab also brings awareness of ecology and crabs' natural habitats.
Extend the Book with a Paper Plate Crab
We love this paper plate crab craft from Vicky Barone! You'll need a paper plate, red acrylic paint, a paint brush, red construction paper, scissors, glue, and googly eyes. (If you don't have the eyes, you can make some out of paper!)
