Danny and Norman’s Favorite Knock Knock Jokes

Description

Danny and Norman’s Favorite Knock Knock Jokes reunites some of our favorite canine friends from other Danny books as Danny and Norman take turns telling their favorite silly knock knock jokes. Danny and Norman’s Favorite Knock Knock Jokes is an I leveled reader. Young children love laughing at silly jokes. It’s an expression of freedom! Using humor allows children to relax and even deviate from the rules in a safe manner.

Reader’s Theater

Reader’s Theater involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. Rhyming tales, joke books, nursery rhymes, and fairy tales are ideal texts for the introduction to Reader’s Theater. Reading aloud from a script is a fun and motivating approach to instruction in fluency and expression, while allowing students to make predictions and observations about characters, setting, and plot.

Humor

Humor has the power to engage all of us. Laughing at a joke, or a funny situation, stimulates the brain’s reward system, activating motivation and long-term memory. The pleasure of humor comes largely from the feeling of mastery. Children’s humor reflects their growing knowledge of how things are normally done, their newly acquired language skills, and their developing understanding of social and emotional issues. A child needs to feel competent to have the confidence to risk silliness.