I Love You, Mom by Iris Hiskey Arno - Teaching Ideas

I Love You, Mom is the perfect read aloud for the start of whatever Mother's Day activities you may have planned for your students. It introduces students to the different jobs that moms have and what the child understands about what their mom does. It focuses on how proud the kids are about their mom and the great work they do.

I usually review a book and give you tons of ideas for teaching all the skills and strategies for that particular book, but because of the way this book was written it really didn't lend itself to that kind of review. So I decided to use this book as the inspiration for the Mother's Day activities I created. Not only will your students think and write about their mom but they will practicing reading skills and strategies at the same time...PERFECT!

Here are the skills and strategies that I did come up with for the book.

Reading level: 2.9

Theme: Holiday, Mother's Day

Genre: Holiday

Suggested Vocabulary: opera, beautician, nimble, surgeon, operates, boast, trial lawyer

Reading skills and strategies:

• characterization - describe your mom {looks like, feelings, thoughts, character}
• classify & categorize - What are things moms are supposed to do and things kids are supposed to do.
• compare & contrast - compare how you and your mom are the same and how you are different
• fact & opinion - list some facts about your mom and list some things that are your opinions about your mom.
• visualize - What your mom does that makes you proud of her.

Example of completed pages!

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Happy reading!