Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day

Nouns and Verbs have a Field Day

Written by: Robin Pulver

Illustrated by: Lynn Rowe Reed

Holiday House 2006

35 pages

Fiction

 

I hardly ever see a book just about nouns and verbs so I thought this would be a good book to check out. Every day in Mr. Wright’s classroom the students would search for nouns and verbs. One day Mr. Wright announced they would be going on a field trip. The nouns and verbs felt lonely to be left in the classroom so they decided to have their own field trip. They learned that the nouns needed the verbs and the verbs needed the nouns.

The illustrations in this book were created with acrylic paint on canvas. There are many bright vibrant colors to catch the excitement of the book. The pages are chaotically filled with different shapes of things.

This book would be great when introducing nouns and verbs in your class. I think it would help the younger students grasp the concept more of what nouns and verbs mean. For older grade, you could have them look through the book and use the different verbs and nouns they see in sentences. You could also use this book as a read aloud and have the students demonstrate some of the actions being done in the book and also let them make up their own actions.