Picture Book 6

Title: First Words

Concept by Julie Aigner-Clark

Illustrator: Nadeem Zaidi

Genre: Children’s Learning

Subgenre: Picture book

Theme: Introduction of new words

Date of publication: 2008

Publishing Company: Disney Press  

Summary: This 24 page, soft covered book includes many categories that children use or see on a daily basis along with additional words that expand their vocabulary. Each picture matches with a word or a color to help children learn their basic words. The categories are as follows: Food, Numbers, Musical Instruments, Nature, Toys and Games, Transportation, Clothes, Underwater friends, Wild Animals, House, Shapes and Colors.

 

I would use this in my Special Education classroom for a couple different purposes. The most obvious way I would use the book is to expand their vocabularies. I will most likely have non verbal children in my classroom; I would use the pictures out of it to do a matching project with them. They would learn to match the picture to the word to test their comprehension of the subject matter.