This is a great picture book with lots of repetition. Students can help predict what will happen next in the story. For instance usually after a dog comes a cat and after a cat comes a mouse. You can also have the students predict will the bed ever break. This story is perfect for small group readin...
The Napping House is a story about a cozy bed, a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, and a snoozing cat. One by one, the characters snuggle on the cozy bed until an unwanted guest arrives. This is the book that I can recite in my sleep. I have read this book hundreds of times to the t...
The Napping House is a silly book about multiple characters trying to sleep. The illustrations are so vivid and perfectly designed. I would use this book for sequencing, a bedtime/naptime story, or a story time story with puppets. Level: J
This is a fun book to read aloud for children. The illustrations are wonderfully large and bold. Aside from using this book in a ELA class, it could be used in a math class for counting. I love that it includes songs to go along with it. It would be fun to have students cut out each character in the...
The Napping House is one of my favorite stories! I love how the action in this story grows and grows. When reading this story with little people, I love to discuss how the perspective of the pictures changes as the story progresses. I think it would be especially fun to allow this book to accompany ...
This book has always been a favorite of mine, especially for the little ones. This book is a fun story about a house where everyone is asleep. It goes through a sequence of people and animals on one cozy bed until one flea bites a mouse. Then everyone is woken up one by one and all crash down and br...
This book was super cute. I actually read it with mt Kindergarten class first semester during my observations. I doesn't have a specific purpose, but it is really fun to read with a class because it is chronological, kind of like "The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly." They really enjoyed reading it al...
Genre: Bedtime / Family / Humor Year Published: 1984 Year Read: 1993 “The Napping House” is one of Audrey Wood’s and Don Wood’s earlier children’s books and is probably one of their most peaceful books ever written. “The Napping House” was extremely popular back in the 80s for its numerous awar...
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