What Do You Say When a Monkey Acts This Way? By: Jane Belk Moncure

Book Title: What Do You Say When a Monkey Acts This Way?

Author: Jane Belk Moncure

Illustrator: Mernie Gallagher Cole

Genre:Modern Fantasy

Summary: Little Monkey learns the importance of using manners every day of the week

ELA Content Standard 1: Kindergarten, Key Ideas and Details #2- With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

How it Connects: Students can make connections to this story to their own life and have discussions about a time where they have used the phrases in the book, or talk about scenarios where you could say the phrases as well. 

ELA Content Standard 2: Kindergarten, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #7- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

How it Connects: The illustrations can give context clues to vocab and also the emotions of the characters and overall tone/ mood of the book at specific times. Students can use this to identify how someone feels when they don't say thank you vs when they do based on the pictures.

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1) you, mommy 2) please, thank you 3) lunch, cupcake

How Children Use Book: Individually and Small Groups

Meets Needs: ELL students can use this book and the basic vocab as well as the installations to understand the manners in this book and the words associated with them.