YOU CAN BE AN AUTHOR!

Are you home from school and looking for something fun to do!? Follow these steps to create your very own WHAT IF YOU HAD!? book. WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ANIMAL TONGUE!? is coming next. But what animals and facts would you put in your very own WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ANIMAL TONGUE!? book?

Follow the 4--RRRRs!

1-R is REVV UP! This is where everyone fires up their brain cells and comes up with ideas.

Okay, we already have the book's title and thus it's subject matter. The challenge now is to come up with animals with interesting tongues. Every WHAT IF YOU HAD?! book introduces 11 (count them) animals. But for your book how about just 6 animals.

If you need a little help thinking up possibilities, try these:

Alligator

Chameleon

Giraffe

Blue Whale

Flamingo

Tiger

Those may or may not be in the real book. You will have to wait to read it to see.

This REVV UP step is a great time for a little brainstorming. 

2-R is RESEARCH! 
Try Googling the animals on your list--or my list--to find out what is interesting about their tongues.

A girafee has a super cool tongue! Just looking at this picture of a giraffe is bound to give you a clue about why it's so cool.
Remember--even though you'll find a lot of interesting info about each animal you have to limit what you share to one thing. Only tell about the animal's tongue.

And pick out one extra bit to share in the FACT box.


Then roll on to the next R.

3-R is READY TO WRITE!

Start with "Get the clay out." Roughly write sentences about the key information to be shared. Next, "Work the clay." That means work on squeezing the information down to just two or three fact-packed sentences. 

Then write the FACT in one fun sentence.


And on to the next R.

4-R is REVIEW AND RE-IMAGINE.

This is the really FUN part! Imagine if you had that animal's tongue. Think about the color, shape and what the animals does with its tongue. Then think "What would it be fun to be able to do because you have that animal's tongue!"

Write what you imagine being able to do with that animal's tongue in a sentence. Finally, draw and color a picture of yourself having that kind of animal tongue.

At the very end of the book, tell why having an animal tongue could be fun for a while.

Then tell at least 3 reasons you're glad you have a human tongue. 

Now you have your very own 

WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ANIMAL TONGUE!? book

BUT you will have to wait to see the real animals and all of the fun packed into 

WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ANIMAL TONGUE!?

Coming SOON!