Amy Ann's Day

Amy Ann's Day is a great book for exploring opposite feelings like happy-sad or cheerful-angry. Amy Ann;s crying face is the ideal cue to teach the short “a” sound and children love to cry with her on each page of her story. Her moods and sounds are contrasted with Miss A's long “a” sound, as reflected in her smiling cheerful face. The simple plot and vocabulary of this story makes it an easy book to introduce early in the year. Younger children can listen to words from the story and tell whether they hear Amy Ann's crying sound or Miss A's cheerful sound. Older children can search for different spelling patterns that result in the long vowel, as in “Amy,” “they,” “great,””daisies,” “face,”or “day.”