Read Time: 6mins
Author: Elinor J. Pinczes
Genre: Animal
Synopsis: Elinor J. Pinczes’s ‘Inchworm and a Half’ (2001) is a humorous story about an inchworm who loves to measure things in her garden. Every loop she takes is one inch. Soon, she however discovers that not everything can be perfectly measured in full inches.
Points of Interest: Animals, math
Who may like this book: Children who are interested in math and how the world works.
Dialogic Reading Prompts
- What fruits, vegetables, and plants did you notice? Which ones do you like to eat and not like to eat?
- How does the inchworm solve problems?
- Why is measuring important in the story?
- What makes the inchworm clever?
- What would you measure if you were him?
- How do small skills make a big difference?
- What can you learn from the inchworm and her friends?
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