Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do
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A playful introduction to careers in a community, that’s also a rhyming picture book guessing game! Perfect for kids interested in different professions around town.
Who wears what to work? The clues in each kid-friendly rhyme can be spotted hanging from the clothesline—from a mail carrier’s uniform to a firefighter’s pants and heavy coat. Then turn the page to learn which professionals wear and use the special gear in the jobs they do. Clever illustrations show the workers helping one another, and in the end, everyone comes together for a celebration that is out of this world.
ASIN : 1580892523
Publisher : Charlesbridge; Reprint edition (March 25, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 40 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781580892520
ISBN-13 : 978-1580892520
Reading age : 2 – 5 years, from customers
Lexile measure : AD490L
Grade level : Preschool – 2
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 9 x 0.16 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book engaging for teaching about community helpers and careers. They appreciate the cute illustrations and find it fun to read with young kids. The book depicts women in non-traditional roles and gender diversity, with an excellent mix of males and females portraying different jobs.
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By the lake –
Preschoolers really enjoyed this book!
Excellent book. Children like books that have a bit of suspense, and this one has that. Each clothesline shows the uniform and tools for a different job and gives the children a chance to guess before turning to the next page with the answer. I used this in a preschool unit about community. I also created a fine motor skills activity to match the book. I used a color copier and printed the clothes and tools on cardstock then laminated them. I did the same for each fully dressed figure. Then tied thin cording between two chairs and created two clotheslines. Using smaller sized clothespins the students took turns sorting the correct uniform pieces to the correct figure. They enjoyed both the book and the activity. Able to store and reuse it again. Highly recommend this book!
Jacquie D –
Super cute book
I used this book with kindergarten students! They all loved looking for clues to figure out who it was!
Wendy H –
Great book for teaching about community helpers
This book uses inference to teach about the uniforms of different community helpers. I look forward to using this book with the Pre-K classes which I see each week in my school.
Amazon Customer –
Kids love!
Read this to my preschoolers for a community helpers unit and they loved it!
Hannah –
Great for preschoolers, good to see women in different roles
This book is very sweet. My 2.5-year-old loves guessing the clues, and itâs a great way to talk about people and jobs in our community.For those commenting on an overrepresenttion of women / unfair gender distribution…. there are seven job roles illustrated in the book. Four are women, three are men. Last I checked, there are more women in the worldâs population than men, so this seems like a pretty accurate and fair distribution to me. And I love that my daughter gets to see women in roles that so many other books donât show â when they should. So it gets more stars from me for that. Weâre happy to have it in our collection!
Katelettuce –
My students loved the book
This book was so cute for my Kindergarteners. It was catchy, fun and the illustrations were great. It can be used for older kids too. Fun guessing game for kids that involved them in the story and allows them to use their critical thinking skills by using past experience or knowledge to guess the job of the person by their clothing or materials used. ALSO, I love the gender fluidity- there is an excellent mixture of males and females portraying different jobs (female mail carrier, male chef).
lindsey grant –
Love this book for Pre-K
I bought this book to go alongside our Community Helpers theme at school. My Pre-Kers loved it and seemed easy enough for them to understand. The only thing I don’t like is I wish there were more jobs in the book. But other than that, there are many ways to ask questions and get them engaged with it.
Barb Hegreberg –
Fun
Great book to teach about community helpers
Beatriz –
I bought this for my ESL classroom so we could have support material for the topic of Labor Day and professions. The kids adored this book and I recommend it to all the parents and teachers out there!
Cliente Amazon –
Utilissimo in classe per lavorare sui mestieri in inglese. Si tratta di indovinelli in rima. Si presta a molte attività collaterali.
Maria Belen –
A mis alumnos les encantó y es muy apto para mi programación.
Krishna Sirsat –
It’s a good book to introduce children to different professions.Would have liked if there were few more professions included as well.
Sparklemama –
I was extremely disappointed by this book. It was so overboard on politically correctness that it paints a completely unrealistic picture of career fields people are employed in. In an attempt to include women in non stereotypical roles they went too far to the extreme and the majority of the book shows jobs by women – astronaut, carpenter, firefighter, etc, and barely ANY jobs done by men. The jobs they do include men doing are mostly menial and you wouldn’t find a man doing them in real life. While it is cutely illustrated and shows how certain jobs require uniforms I wouldn’t recommend it. Also, it only has a handful of jobs in it (I was expecting at least a dozen or more) and wasn’t really worth the shipping.