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又到了到圖書館英語志工的時間，這次從書櫃裡挑了三本圖畫書，分別是：

Big and Little (Steve Jenkins)

The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Iza Trapani)

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs (Byron Barton)   

乍看之下，似乎是完全沒有關連性的三本書，不過呢，我自訂的主題是「Big & Little」。嘿嘿，這就說的通啦～

先以Steve Jenkins的拼貼概念書Big and Little帶出相同或同類的動物有大小之分的概念，之後談談小的動物（這裡我選的是蜘蛛，所以挑了The Itsy Bitsy Spider，正好可以用唱的，讓接連的三個故事份量相對的輕一些）；最後談到大型動物，當然就是不敗的恐龍主題啦～（考量圖書館來聽故事的多事低年級與學齡前的孩子，挑了Byron Barton的Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs，老少咸宜。）

一個半鐘頭的故事時間進行的很順利流暢，孩子們都很投入，我自己也玩的很開心。接下來就把當天流程簡單記錄一下～

I. Greeting and Warm-up:

    - Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

II. Story (1): Big and Little (Steve Jenkins)

    - Guide the students to tell the stories together using the patterns below:

Ss: Big, big, big. What is big?

T: The (tiger) is big.

Ss: Little, little, little. What is little?

T: The (cat) is little.

T+Ss: Tiger, cat, big and little.

-   Discuss about each animal pairs, especially those unfamiliar ones.

III. Activity (1):

     - Ss take turns to find out the animal pairs in the appendix of the picture book, and try to use the guided patterns to describe them, i.e.,

       "The ___ is big. The ___ is little."

        Or, "(Tiger), (cat), big and little."

        Or simply "Big and little."

IV. Activity (2)

-   Prepare picture cards of farm animals.

-   Ss work in pairs to pick the animal cards, and use the patterns taught to describe them.

V. Activity (3): Guessing Game:

    -   Listen to the description and guess what insect it is. (Ans.: Spider)

VI. Story (2): The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Iza Trapani)

VII. Activity (4): Finger Rhyme (The Itsy Bitsy Spider)

VIII. Activity (5): Free Talking

       -   Discuss about dinosaurs, e.g., their names, features and sizes.

IX.  Story (3): Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs (Byron Barton)

X. Activity (6): Follow the Footprint

    -  Follow dinosaurs' footprints and match the colors.

      (* I'll post my self-made "Dinosaur Footprint Carpet" later.)

XI. T-Rex Finger Puppet (EnchantedLearning.com)