There Is a Bird on Your Head!

There Is a Bird on Your Head! | Mo Willems

There Is a Bird on Your Head! is a funny, sweetly drawn MF picture book by Mo Willems. This Geisel award winner is about best buds Gerald and Piggie. When Gerald finds that he has a bird on his head, he has no idea what to do! Thankfully, his optimistic pal is there to help when things get silly. This book is perfect as an RA in Kindergarten. The following link has vocabulary support activities for emergent readers of this book:
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nquintus https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/book/there-bird-your-head

This book has very simple vocabulary, counting, and even basic emotional concepts. Piggie is always calm and positive, while Gerald tends to panic. This corresponds well with either a simple ELA lesson using the book's vocab or an SEL lesson on self-management and relationship skills. For this RA, I recommend ESOL strategy 12: teach to language and content and UDL 9.2: coping skills. 4y

ashleyshugars Nicole, I LOVE your ESOL and UDL strategies that you listed for this book! I would also add UDL 9.3, Develop Self Assessment and reflection. I love incorporating real life with these adorable books! 4y

DrSpalding Reading is fundamental is an excellent resource that you should continue to use. This duo is quite popular in the primary grades. This author should be a staple in your classroom. 4y

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JRone

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Written and illustrated by Mo Willems, this picture book has won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. This F is about an elephant and a pig, but the elephant isn't too pleased when two birds make a nest on his head. Read to find out how the elephant gets rid of the birds on his head. This book would be prefect for a S.
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JRone ESOL strategy #14 Simplify your speech by making it slower and redundant would help the student follow along with a lot of the repeated phrases. UDL strategy 2.2 Clarify syntax and structure would help students follow along with the pattern in the book. 5y

JRone https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/book/there-bird-your-head provides a lesson plan with multiple activities for students. The memory matching puzzle has 3 different levels and helps build vocabulary words. The word search is a fun way for students to get involved. 5y

DrSpalding This award winner is certainly just a rate for emergent readers. Reading is fundamental is a high-quality resource. You have done a beautiful job with your resources. 5y

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Killianfig

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Geisel Award Winning Modern Fantasy (F) Novel “There Is a Bird on Your Head!” by Mo Willems is a lighthearted, simple story that describes an interaction between a talking pig and elephant in which different items just do not seem to stop landing on the head of the frustrated elephant.

Killianfig The simple vocabulary and avid use of repetition highlights ESOL strategies 11, 14, an 15 as well as UDL strategies 3.2 and 3.3. 6y

Killianfig The story is perfect for tactical and visual learning activities such as Storytelling (S), Reader‘s Theater (RT), Dramatic Reenactment (DR) as object on the alligator‘s head increase as the story progresses, describing a great visual connection that can be recreated in the classroom. The textual simplicity can also be emphasized by the teacher through auditory means during activities such as Read Alouds (RA) and Choral Readings (CR). 6y

Killianfig Here‘s a link that has a ton of printable games based on the plot of the story: https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/book/there-bird-your-head 6y

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DrSpalding Children love his books. If you were teaching at the primary level, they are a must. 6y

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Jaquessial

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There is a bird on your head by Mo Willems is a Fiction book. This book was awarded The Geisel award. This classic one of a kind is an awesome book addition to anyone's classroom library. Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-- two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend. #ucflae3414F17

Jaquessial Teachers are able to do many activities with this book. http://study.com/academy/lesson/there-is-a-bird-on-your-head-lesson-plan.html I loved the idea of kids making birds to put on their heads. That was a very cute. 7y

Jaquessial Teaching strategies: LC, IR, and SR (edited) 7y

Teresaj I read the “ Let‘s go for a drive!” Book of this series and it was super cute! Great book and illustrations. 7y

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AndreaC I love Mo Willems from “Don‘t Let the Pigeons Drive The Bus”, this seems like a cute one as well! 7y

Jaquessial UDL strategy: 2.4, promote understanding across languages. Esol strategy would be #47, using information gap activities(sharing pieces of information to solve problems) 7y

DrSpalding Knowing this is a Geisel award winner, you can be sure that this is a high-quality book to share with emergent readers. Great choice. 7y

farynantenucci I did my author study on Mo Willems and this is one of my favorite written by him. 7y

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

There Is a Bird on Your Head! | Mo Willems

Oh my!!! More books for Dexter' niece and nephew!! They are going to be so happy!! I can't tell y'all how happy I am to be a part of such an amazing, loving group of people!! Thanks so much for everything!! @Lmstraubie

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Diana_S

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A hilarious F book written by the great Mo Willems! Elephant wakes up from a nap to find a bird has chosen his head as a nesting ground, how will he solve this problem? You have to read to find out!
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http://study.com/academy/lesson/there-is-a-bird-on-your-head-lesson-plan.html

tfundora I have heard of these books! I definitely would love to read these books! 7y

SamanthaPuglisi The award immediately caught my eye! This is being added to my stack! 7y

Steph_Castro I love Mo Willems books. I haven't read this one yet but I'm definitely adding it to my stack. 7y

DrSpalding The award should catch all of your eyes. Quality books for emergent readers. 7y

StephanieP Definitely seems like a great read! I love how goofy the characters are ! 7y

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HippieChickHomeschool

There Is a Bird on Your Head! | Mo Willems

#bookishpetpeeve Evil child hating librarians who cover up the Pigeon hiding in the back of Elephant and Piggie books! Seriously though, I hate it when stickers cover up the title or the blurb. (And the sticker that covered up Pigeon was really beyond the pale)

mrp27 Ohhh I hate that! 8y

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abbylibrarian

There Is a Bird on Your Head! | Mo Willems

My niece's first Elephant and Piggie books!! #christmas

Suzze My favorites! I hope she loves them as much as I do. 8y

abbylibrarian @Suzze We read them together and she was so excited to hear that there are lots more! 8y

saresmoore Oh, how fun! I love everything about these books, down to the endpapers! 8y

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Lauren_reading

There Is a Bird on Your Head!. by Mo Willems | Mo Willems

Elephant and Piggie are such awesome friends! Always supportive and fun (you're really going to need a friend when there is a bird on your head). My kinders love these books and I like how Mo Willems shows friendship in such an easy way. #augustofpages #bookphotochallenge #bookishfriendship

OneLitChick Love these books! 8y

Jellybeanbon So cute!! 8y

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