Shirts and Skirts

General Theme Shirts and Skirts is a story that introduces over a dozen clothing items in different settings. It also depicts familiar family scenes like waking up, meal time, and playing outdoors.

Family life and getting dressed can easily be explored with students, and offer interesting and pertinent topics for class and home discussion.

Sights and Sounds There are a number of sights and sounds represented in Shirts and Skirts , and the expressive illustrations bring those sights and sounds to life for the readers. This offers a great opportunity for teachers, parents and caregivers to explore with students both indoor and outdoor sounds. Illustrations can be used to generate discussions about ways to dress for different activities and various types of weather.

Have fun exploring with children and see what other clothing items they can name!

Physical activity Shirts and Skirts is full of opportunities for the application of movement! This movement can easily be translated into fun, healthy and stimulating exercise for students. From the first page, teachers and parents can devise games, activities and dance moves to encourage students to act out experiences and parts of the story, like jumping jacks for making a snow angel or running in place to simulate splashing in puddles.

These movements all add to a sound base on which to build a springboard into activities that can delight young people!

The Shirts and Skirts DVD includes a song, dance, a reading of the story, and offers strong learning support to the book.

Rhyme review Shirts and Skirts helps introduce or enhance a student's exploration of the fun in rhyming words. With the entire story told in rhythmic and rhyming phrases, there are plenty of opportunities to practice rhyming sounds and to practice reading with rhythmic flow and cadence.

Shirts and Skirts provides an open invitation to students to read, listen to, and view reading in a different light. Rhyming stories can help expand a student's experience of reading and listening by blending the poetic and prosaic quality of words into storytelling that is easy on the ear.

Some academic studies have shown that learning rhyming skills can enhance a student's reading skills.

All of this is done with imaginative and colorful illustrations as well as the endearing, rhythmic, and educational storytelling ability of Warren Timms.

May you enjoy the adventures of reading!