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Clap Your Hands
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Author:聽Lorinda Bryan Cauley
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18 to 23 Months | Poetry/Songs
This delightful interactive picture book will encourage your toddler to clap, stomp, wiggle and dance with the children and animals in the illustrations. The catchy, rhyming format reinforces words that sound alike, while the fun instructions teach the meanings of action verbs.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-d17bc51505 class=cmp-text>
This delightful interactive picture book will encourage your toddler to clap, stomp, wiggle and dance with the children and animals in the illustrations. The catchy, rhyming format reinforces words that sound alike, while the fun instructions teach the meanings of action verbs.
Before, During and After Reading
<b>Oral Language</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Read the title of the book to your toddler and encourage him to clap his hands.</b> Point out the characters on the cover of the book. You might say:</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">鈥淟ook how much fun those friends are having clapping their hands together! What kinds of animals is the little girl playing with? She鈥檚 clapping with a bear, a dog, a mole and a prairie dog! What a silly group of friends.鈥</p>\r\n"}} id=text-ea73337a1a class=cmp-text>
Oral Language
Read the title of the book to your toddler and encourage him to clap his hands. Point out the characters on the cover of the book. You might say:
鈥淟ook how much fun those friends are having clapping their hands together! What kinds of animals is the little girl playing with? She鈥檚 clapping with a bear, a dog, a mole and a prairie dog! What a silly group of friends.鈥
<b>This book is full of activities for you and your toddler to do together.</b> As you read, encourage your toddler to try to do each activity. The first few times, you may need to model the activity for him. For example, show him how to 鈥淩each for the sky, wiggle your toes. Stick out your tongue, touch your nose.鈥</p>\r\n<p><b>Oral Language</b></p>\r\n<p><b>The book is filled with fun and silly illustrations of children playing with different types of animals.</b> Talk to your toddler about the pictures and ask him questions. You might say:</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">鈥淒o you see that big hippopotamus wearing overalls and a striped shirt? And that bear is wearing a tie! Can you find the kitty cat on this page?鈥</p>\r\n<p><b>Phonological Awareness</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Each page contains rhyming lines.</b> Emphasize the words that rhyme, drawing attention to the way their endings sound the same.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-1a4d991a3c class=cmp-text>
This book is full of activities for you and your toddler to do together. As you read, encourage your toddler to try to do each activity. The first few times, you may need to model the activity for him. For example, show him how to 鈥淩each for the sky, wiggle your toes. Stick out your tongue, touch your nose.鈥
Oral Language
The book is filled with fun and silly illustrations of children playing with different types of animals. Talk to your toddler about the pictures and ask him questions. You might say:
鈥淒o you see that big hippopotamus wearing overalls and a striped shirt? And that bear is wearing a tie! Can you find the kitty cat on this page?鈥
Phonological Awareness
Each page contains rhyming lines. Emphasize the words that rhyme, drawing attention to the way their endings sound the same.
<b>Oral Language</b></p>\r\n<p><b>Incorporate the activities and the concepts your toddler learned at other times in the day.</b> You might say:</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">鈥淩emember when we read our book and we purred like a kitten? What did that sound like? We also barked like a dog! Woof woof! Can you moo like a cow? Let鈥檚 cluck like a chicken!鈥</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">鈥淚t was fun when we found something yellow and something red in our book. Let鈥檚 find something yellow in this room! I know! Your toy dump truck is yellow! Great job! Now let鈥檚 find something red.鈥</p>\r\n<p>Find more <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/reading-brightstart/at-home-activities/18-to-23-months.html\">at-home activities</a> designed to promote oral language skills in toddlers 18 to 23 months or browse more <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/reading-brightstart/recommended-books/18-to-23-months.html\">recommended children鈥檚 books</a> to read together.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-d3a71203c0 class=cmp-text>
Oral Language
Incorporate the activities and the concepts your toddler learned at other times in the day. You might say:
鈥淩emember when we read our book and we purred like a kitten? What did that sound like? We also barked like a dog! Woof woof! Can you moo like a cow? Let鈥檚 cluck like a chicken!鈥
鈥淚t was fun when we found something yellow and something red in our book. Let鈥檚 find something yellow in this room! I know! Your toy dump truck is yellow! Great job! Now let鈥檚 find something red.鈥
Find more at-home activities designed to promote oral language skills in toddlers 18 to 23 months or browse more recommended children鈥檚 books to read together.