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. Here is our Reader’s Theater activity for Danny and Norman’s Favorite Knock Knock Jokes.

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.

Coordinating Activities:

• Danny has a special Snack Mix to put in your bag.
• Going camping? Make a Snack-on-a-Stick for easy snacking.
• Create a Photo Album of Danny and Dad’s camping trip.
• Making your own Solar Oven and roast your own marshmallows.
• Create your own Comic Speech Bubble.
• Continue the story with a Three-Panel Story Strip or a Six-Panel Story Strip.
• Learn more about Danny and his friends in the All About MRB Word Search.
• Read, Roll, and Chat about the setting, sequence, story, and characters in this book.
• Use these Writing Tools for writing and comprehension practice.
• Print your own set of Letter Tiles for word and sound practice.
• Explore Poetry with Danny and Bee for poetry activities and templates.
• Print and fold a Danny Fortune Teller about Danny and his friends.
• Color and send your own Custom Danny Card.
• Organize your Danny books in the classroom with a Danny Doghouse, complete with a chalkboard roof.
• Use these directions to make our Menagerie Animal Cracker Box to store your books.