The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose (2003)
by Arnold Lobel
There are dozens of Mother Goose books and so they are easy to find and read. Any Mother Goose book will do! Be sure to read the book over and over. Mother Goose listings and sites are also available online with a simple search. Children enjoy the books, pictures, and rhymes. More importantly, teachers wish all children had listened to Mother Goose rhymes as they provide necessary background for learning to read. If you have a struggling first grade reader, try reading Mother Goose books for awhile. Read until the poems are familiar to children and the rhyming patterns are really heard. This is how parents can build pheonomic awareness to help children learn to read. Really! As a first grade teacher, I knew which child had listened to books such as Mother Goose when we were working on phonics lessons. Other poems are also good, but Mother Goose poems are short and memorable which is what is helpful. Long poems for very young children do not help in the way short poems do. Funny poems such as the ones written by Shel Silverstein are for children in grades one and above. Mother Goose Poems may be read to babies and any child ready to listen. I wish every child could hear these poems repeatedly before the age of five.
I realize the meaning behind some Mother Goose poems is true history and not the information is not at all for children. Forget it! This reading is important.
There are many of Mother Goose videos on YouTube, also, if interested.
