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My Favorite Color by Aaron Becker Teacher Tip Card
My Favorite Color by Aaron Becker Teacher Tip Card
COLOR
AARON BECKER
People always ask for your favorite
color. But who said you can only have
one? This gorgeous board book is an
ode to ever-changing colors, offering a
spectrum of hues evoking the sun, the
sea, clouds, and dew-dappled fruit.
• TEACHER TIPS
MY FAVORITE COLOR
experiment with mixing colors using
Before reading, ask your students,
“What color is an apple? The ocean?” different media—chalk, paint, crayons,
or acetate squares—to make them
As a class, find photos, drawings, and darker and lighter or completely
paintings of different bodies of water— different.
oceans, lakes, rivers, puddles, etc. Then
make a list of all the colors the class Have students paint a grid of colors
can find in these pictures. representing the colors they find in a
picture of something they consider one
Take note of how the colors of the color (for example, the blue ocean or a
acetate squares combine with the red apple).
different colors on the pages to make
new colors or shades. Have students Discuss why the narrator finds it so
hard to pick a favorite color.