Get your little readers moving with a fun lesson about Eric Carle's Little Cloud. After reading the book together, they engage in a series of locomotor and manipulative activities to illustrate how different elements of the story would move.

Concepts

movement, locomotor skills, gross motor skills, eric carle, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• A great way to integrate language arts into your physical fitness lesson, or vice versa
• Use in a unit featuring the works of Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Ask kids to connect other movements to different characters in the books they are reading
• Good tool for physical therapists or specialists

Pros

• Comes with a rubric and assessment tool for all skills, including physical milestones and reading skills
• Provides safety considerations and guidelines

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.K.6 RF.K.1.a RF.K.2.a RF.K.3.a RF.K.4 RF.1.1.a RF.1.2.a RF.1.3.a RF.1.4.a