Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle is a children's picture book about a bear who is asked what does it see.  The bears responds with he sees a red bird staring at him.  The book continues to in the same way asking each character what does it see.  After the character answers the question whatever character the previously one saw looking at them is then asked the same question.  The book continues until it gets to children when the children answer the questions with renaming all the characters seen in the book.

Genre/Theme

This particular children's book is a picture book.  The picture book has full page pictures done with a painting style to them.  The colors in the pictures are very bold but have some integrations of different shades of the same colors.  The pictures in the story are accompanies by the text that is given because giving just the pictures it would be a little hard to follow.  However, with the text the story is very clear and the reader can follow exactly what is going on in the story.

Discussion Questions

1) What was your favorite character seen in the book?

2) Why did the children name all the characters that were seen in the story book?

3) Do you think that the children really saw all these characters in the story?

Activity

After discussing the book with the students and answering the questions you have planned send the students back to their desks.  At their desks will different parts of the characters that were seen in the book.  However, the pictures are cut into different shapes.  The children's jobs are to put the characters together to solve the puzzle.  After the characters are put together ask the children to try and place the characters in sequential order.  After the children say they are done everything.  Then go through the sequential order with the class.

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