ZooZical Lesson

Book Lesson: "ZooZical" 

This lesson is based off of the book “Zoozical” by Judy Sierra and inspired by Artie Almeida. It is appropriate for Grades 1-3. I did it with 2^nd Grade this year. You could even do it with Kindergarten by the end of the year. 

First I read them the book front to back and just let them listen. After we read the book we summarize the story. Then we assign instruments to the words “Magical” “Musical” and “Zoozical” I have a variety of instruments available and each class will choose different instruments to be magical, musical, and zoozical. Next we practice saying: “on a Magical Musical Zoozical Night” playing the chosen instrument when we say the words. Once we can do that successfully we re-read the story playing the instruments whenever the word appears in the story as well as saying “on a Magical Musical Zoozical Night” after each page- this gives every student the opportunity to play.  

I love lessons like this because the students have to be engaged during the entire story or they’ll miss their “entrance” or turn to play (and they hate to miss a chance to play an instrument! )