excellent - Katrina

Patterns books are some of my favorite books, especially for younger children Pre-K- 1st and for multilingual learners. A-B-A-B-A- A Book of Pattern play was a fun book Brian Cleary and Brian Gable use to illustrate fun rhymes through animals. This is a great book for early learners as it helps understand the structure of repeating patterns, once the reader catches on, they can predict exactly which colors, shapes, and things thy will see. This is also a great book for ELL’s since they are easily decodable using animals and letters patterns, which is what ELL’s should build on. I would certainly recommend this book in your classroom library. ( )

Extreme;y colorful and a variety of patterns illustrated. The use of the cats as the characters makes this book fun to read and look at. It is useful for starting a lesson or extending an activity about patterns. ( )