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Goodnight Moon
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12 to 17 Months | Concept
<i>Goodnight Moon</i> is a classic bedtime story with illustrations by Clement Hurd. It was first published in 1947, and you may remember it from your own childhood. The text is a soothing and rhythmic description of a bunny鈥檚 bedtime ritual.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-011dda9e8a class=cmp-text>
Goodnight Moon is a classic bedtime story with illustrations by Clement Hurd. It was first published in 1947, and you may remember it from your own childhood. The text is a soothing and rhythmic description of a bunny鈥檚 bedtime ritual.
Before, During and After Reading
<b>Print Awareness and Letter Knowledge</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Read the title of the book as you run your finger under the letters.</b> Ask your toddler to touch things on the cover as you name them.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-ae4420e660 class=cmp-text>
Print Awareness and Letter Knowledge
Read the title of the book as you run your finger under the letters. Ask your toddler to touch things on the cover as you name them.
<span style=\"font-family: adobe-clean, "Source Sans Pro", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;\"><b>Phonological Awareness</b></span></p>\r\n<p><b>Read the story using rhythm and rhyme.</b> Listening to rhyming words is a toddler鈥檚 first exposure to phonological awareness. As you read, you may naturally place emphasis on the rhyming word pairs. </p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: adobe-clean, "Source Sans Pro", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;\">After your toddler becomes more familiar with the story, you might talk about the illustrations and ask him to touch things that you name.</span><br>\r\n</p>\r\n"}} id=text-8ae4c1c36a class=cmp-text>
Phonological Awareness
Read the story using rhythm and rhyme. Listening to rhyming words is a toddler鈥檚 first exposure to phonological awareness. As you read, you may naturally place emphasis on the rhyming word pairs.聽
After your toddler becomes more familiar with the story, you might talk about the illustrations and ask him to touch things that you name.
<b>Oral Language</b></p>\r\n<p><b>After your child is very familiar with <i>Goodnight Moon, </i>you might provide some activities related to the story and illustrations.</b> Here are some ideas: </p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Gather as many small items as you can to represent things shown in the story (e.g., red pom-poms for balloons, small plastic cow, bears and kittens, comb and brush, moon). Place the items in a bin filled with sand or rice. Let your toddler reach in and discover these familiar items. </li>\r\n<li>Walk around your toddler鈥檚 room before bed and say good night to some of the things in his room, following the word pattern in the book. If you can create rhyming phrases, that鈥檚 an added bonus! For example, </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80.0px;\">鈥淚n Austin鈥檚 room ...<br>\r\nThere was a green lamp,<br>\r\nAnd a blue wall,<br>\r\nAnd a picture of 鈥<br>\r\nDaddy, so tall! </p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80.0px;\">Goodnight room,<br>\r\nGoodnight blue wall,<br>\r\nGood night green lamp,<br>\r\nAnd Daddy, so tall.鈥</p>\r\n<p>Find more <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/reading-brightstart/recommended-books/12-to-17-months.html\">recommended children鈥檚 books</a> for toddlers 12 to 17 months, or find an easy <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/reading-brightstart/at-home-activities/12-to-17-months.html\">at-home activity</a> designed to strengthen <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/reading-brightstart/reading-skills-by-age/pre-reading-skills.html\">pre-reading skills</a> in your toddler.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-65ce17750c class=cmp-text>
Oral Language
After your child is very familiar with Goodnight Moon, you might provide some activities related to the story and illustrations. Here are some ideas:聽
- Gather as many small items as you can to represent things shown in the story (e.g., red pom-poms for balloons, small plastic cow, bears and kittens, comb and brush, moon). Place the items in a bin filled with sand or rice. Let your toddler reach in and discover these familiar items.聽
- Walk around your toddler鈥檚 room before bed and say good night to some of the things in his room, following the word pattern in the book. If you can create rhyming phrases, that鈥檚 an added bonus! For example,聽
鈥淚n Austin鈥檚 room ...
There was a green lamp,
And a blue wall,
And a picture of 鈥
Daddy, so tall!聽
Goodnight room,
Goodnight blue wall,
Good night green lamp,
And Daddy, so tall.鈥
Find more recommended children鈥檚 books for toddlers 12 to 17 months, or find an easy at-home activity designed to strengthen pre-reading skills in your toddler.