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What better way for the little

red chicken to persuade Papa to


make cookies for breakfast than
by jarring him awake and gleefully
interjecting cookies—and herself!—
into every nursery rhyme they
read together?

Use Interrupting Chicken: Cookies


for Breakfast in your
classroom to explore
the idea of fractured
nursery rhymes,
rhyming, and
story structure.

HC: 978-1-5362-0778-1 • Also available as an e-book


• TEACHER TIPS

INTERRUPTING CHICKEN
COOKIES FOR BREAKFAST
 ave students write
H  s a class, discuss
A
their own rhyming the origins of nursery
poems about cookies rhymes, specifically
or their favorite the ones featured in
breakfast foods. this book.

Assign one nursery  xplain the traditional


E
rhyme mentioned in the type of story structure
story to each of your of a nursery rhyme,
students and have them then ask students to
adapt it into their own discuss how the little
fractured tale, complete red chicken interrupts
with illustrations. this structure.
Illustrations copyright © 2021 by David Ezra Stein

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