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Whose Hat?
Hats and more hats! But whose hats are they? From a chef to a fire fighter, youngsters will enjoy guessing the professions of each hat owner. Striking photographs first show the owner of the hat and then capture the excitement of a child trying it on. "A good concept, nicely executed."--Booklist.
40 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1988
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March 10, 2015
I really enjoy using participatory and/or interactive books in story time. It makes my job easier. 3/7/12
Used for Lap Time today. Not as a participatory, but in introduction to all the kinds of hats. 3/13/13
Probably the least effective book at story time, lost a couple of the children with this one. However, I felt we should do one younger book for the young boy.
Used in Lap Time again as an introduction to various hats. Maybe it is getting to dated though with the nurse's hat. 3/10/15
Used for Lap Time today. Not as a participatory, but in introduction to all the kinds of hats. 3/13/13
Probably the least effective book at story time, lost a couple of the children with this one. However, I felt we should do one younger book for the young boy.
Used in Lap Time again as an introduction to various hats. Maybe it is getting to dated though with the nurse's hat. 3/10/15
November 18, 2010
Following our usual greeting songs... ("The More We Get Together" and "Hello Everybody"--which today included jumping up and down and-after sitting down again-take a deep breath)the children pantomimed with me "put on our magic spectacles" (binocular eyes) and "put on our imagincation hats" (reach way up high because of our BIG imaginations) and roll our hands into our laps (roll arms down to laps and fold them)...story time was launched with this book.
We all pantomimed taking a photograph (click) and putting it in a book (press hands onto lap) and adding captions (make writing motions with hand) as an introduction to the way Margaret Miller created this book.
The children were shown a photograph of a hat. The caption is "Whose hat?" They all guessed "a cooker" I turned the page, and sure enough, there was a chef. I invited them to say "chef", which they did. "Is this a job?" I asked. "Yes!" they said.
We proceeded through the book. I would ask each time, "Is this a job?" Sometimes I would add, "Is it a fun job?" "Is it a hard job?" "Is it an important job?" -- stuff like that. The children enjoyed this immensely.
This method of book sharing is called "Dialogic Reading". It can be described as...
an interactive method of reading picture books with children. When reading dialogically, adults encourage children to become actively involved in the reading process – asking questions and allowing children opportunities to be storytellers. http://www.childtrends.org/lifecourse...
Multiple random assignment studies have examined the impact of training parents and teachers to engage in dialogic reading. In these studies, children exposed to dialogic reading have been found to perform better than unexposed children on some measures of expressive vocabulary and verbal fluency. Impacts have been found for children from a diversity of backgrounds – lower-class and upper-class, English-speaking and Spanish-speaking – and with a diversity of pre-existing language skills. Dialogic reading has been found to have an impact whether it is practiced in the school or in the home. The strategy can be effectively taught to adults via direct training sessions or videotape.
We all pantomimed taking a photograph (click) and putting it in a book (press hands onto lap) and adding captions (make writing motions with hand) as an introduction to the way Margaret Miller created this book.
The children were shown a photograph of a hat. The caption is "Whose hat?" They all guessed "a cooker" I turned the page, and sure enough, there was a chef. I invited them to say "chef", which they did. "Is this a job?" I asked. "Yes!" they said.
We proceeded through the book. I would ask each time, "Is this a job?" Sometimes I would add, "Is it a fun job?" "Is it a hard job?" "Is it an important job?" -- stuff like that. The children enjoyed this immensely.
This method of book sharing is called "Dialogic Reading". It can be described as...
an interactive method of reading picture books with children. When reading dialogically, adults encourage children to become actively involved in the reading process – asking questions and allowing children opportunities to be storytellers. http://www.childtrends.org/lifecourse...
Multiple random assignment studies have examined the impact of training parents and teachers to engage in dialogic reading. In these studies, children exposed to dialogic reading have been found to perform better than unexposed children on some measures of expressive vocabulary and verbal fluency. Impacts have been found for children from a diversity of backgrounds – lower-class and upper-class, English-speaking and Spanish-speaking – and with a diversity of pre-existing language skills. Dialogic reading has been found to have an impact whether it is practiced in the school or in the home. The strategy can be effectively taught to adults via direct training sessions or videotape.
January 11, 2013
I used the idea of this book for a hat-themed program for both Spanish and bilingual story times, but rather than read the story from the book, I showed the kids actual hats (not all of them are included in the book, though) and had them guess who wears the hats (fireman, police man, train conductor, etc.). It was fun doing it as a prop!
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September 19, 2015I never know how my story time toddlers will respond to guessing game books (usually they're excited, but occasionally I just get total silence/disinterest), but they seemed to really like this one and were very good guessers! I did skip the witch pages because there's always controversy somewhere when witchcraft is mentioned, and I didn't want to risk that, especially in October.
October 2, 2014
Whose Hat? may be an oldie, but my goodness the children enjoyed it during our fire truck visit program! They all had a ton of fun guessing which hat belonged to which occupation. Awesome!
Great for pre-k storytime.
4.5
Great for pre-k storytime.
4.5
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March 29, 2010A bit outdated but will still be great for my hat storytime!
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January 27, 2011clothing guessing
November 7, 2012
Non fiction book that shows pictures of different hats and lets the read guess whose it is. It tells them on the next page. Very simple book.
November 7, 2012
Fun for young kids.
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January 22, 2013only thing that doesn't fit is witches hat. . . .
February 19, 2015
A look at real hats and who wears them. I bring in the hats that are in the book.
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