Tips for Using Chicken, Pig, Cow with children:
Provide popsicle sticks and glue so that children can build barns for small classroom toys. Invite them to make up/act out stories with these toys and barns. Write the children’s stories on a piece of paper or in a blank book. Ask the children to illustrate their stories. Enjoy reading and sharing the “toy stories.”
Tips for Using Chicken, Pig, Cow with families:
Share with families the importance of imaginative play, and the ways in which this story can encourage children to talk about, think about, and create stories with their toys, and how this enhances literacy development.