Doreen Cronin
Lesson plans for Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type

| Biography and Background | | Click, Clack, Moo |

Biography and Background

An interview with the author and illustrator.

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type

An extensive set of lessons addressing a variety of skills. Resources require Adobe Reader for access.

Vocabulary, sentence starters, tips for negotiating, poetry, and other activities.

Comprehension questions with emphasis on economic concepts of economic wants, goods and services, and trade and money.

This lesson uses the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin to teach students word identification strategies. Through shared readings, teachers and students read and reread the five notes from Farmer Brown and the animals with fluency and expression. With repeated teacher modeling and guided practice, students learn to identify rimes or word families and apply their knowledge of these words to the decoding of new words.

A readers' theater script of the book.

This 4-page handout asks students to read a newspaper article about urban cow art. Students design their own cow using the same approach the original artists used. Access requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.