Teach English to Kindergarten kids (non-readers) with the rhyming picture book 'Brown Owl'.

There is so much langage to get out of the book and so much fun to be had practising it through games.

You can:

1) play pairs or change places with the game cards

2) play dominoes

3) laminate the bingo mat four times and use it for a game of bingo. Children select three pictures using counters and the teacher draws flashcards at random. The first child to remove all three counters shouts BINGO!

4) Use the Beebot cards to familiarise the children with the key pictures.

TIP: print the cards twice and turn them into a giant game of pairs!

Use the programming cards to send BeeBot around the mat and teach children basic BeeBot commands.

5) Hang the flashcards up around the gym. The teacher says a word, the children run to the picture. e.g. Where is the Brown Owl? Where is Little Jean?

6) Children move like the animals: fly like Granny, snooze like Grampy, run like Dog, jump like a frog etc.

7) Make a mini book with all the characters from the story to take home.

8) Laminate the I spy/hidden object picture. Children have to find the animals in the list and circle them. Wipe the card clean for the next player!

I have also included this picture as a colouring page.

9) Colour the animals, cut them out, glue them onto story sticks and play a game of 'I spy, with my little eye' (teacher says the animals, the children hold them up) or a game of change places (Obstsalat) sitting in a circle.

10) Make some finger puppets. Use for retelling the story or make up a new one!

Have fun reading and rhyming with Brown Owl!

For more information about my series of rhyming picture books, please visit: readandrhyme.at