We're going on a bear hunt

We're going on a bear hunt

Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury

We're going on a bear hunt is a beautiful picture book. It has repetitive lines and good words for sounds which would be nice for children to practise their phonics.
I used this story to read to a year 1 class at the end of the day, it builds excitement and tension and allows for good use of expression. The children loved the story and became very excited, joining in with the sound effects.

This story would be good for individual reading with children, it can give them an opportunity to explore using expression for themselves, seeing if they can have a scared voice, or an excited voice. As well as this the repetitive pattern to the story would help the reader once they get into the swing of the book.

As mentioned before the book has beautiful images in it, and could be used to explore comprehension and possibly used for a task predicting the story; if you share a page with the children, can they predict or create their own text for it.

The children really enjoyed this book, they loved looking at the pictures and enjoyed joining in with the sounds as the family are trying to find a bear.