Tuesday, September 27, 2016


Title: Inch by Inch
Posted by: Supria Nandi


Author: Leo Lionn
Recommended Grade Levels: Pre- K, Kindergarten, First and Second grade.

CCSSM Content Standards:
Describe and compare measurable attributes.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.1
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.2
Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.
Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.A.1
Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.A.2
Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps. Limit to contexts where the object being measured is spanned by a whole number of length units with no gaps or overlaps.
Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.1
Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.3
Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.4
Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.

Summary: This story is about a little green inchworm that was proud of its measuring skills. To protect itself from hungry birds, it used its measuring skill to measure a robin’s tail, a flamingo’s neck, a toucan’s beak, and a heron’s legs. It even used its skill to protect itself from a hungry nightingale, which threaten inchworm to be eaten if it failed to measure nightingale’s song. Inchworm used its measuring skill creatively to solve that dilemma.

Rating:




I would rate this book 5 out of 5. This is a great picture book with unique illustration. Pages are filled with mostly pictures and small written text on the bottom or the corner. It is appropriate for early childhood and Childhood grades. This story can be used to teach children about measurement, nature, and even about thinking "outside of the box" to solve problems.


Classroom Ideas:

Pre-K & Kindergarten:

This story could be used as a great recourse to teach integrated math and language art skills. Students would be familiar with math vocabularies such as inch, measure, and distance. They would develop the concept that different attributes of an object could be measured. Activities students would able to do:
·      Act out the story and use their own body to measure the length of the rug, floor etc. like the inch warm.
·      Create their own inchworms using construction papers or pipe cleaners and measure the length of different objects.
·      Compare their length of different objects. (Same, longer or shorter)

First grade:

·      Measure length using iterating unit (student made inchworm, paper clips etc.)
·      Compare length-using explanation. (for example; the red pencil is longer that the blue pencil because red pencil is 4 paper clips long and the blue one is 3 paper clips long.)

Second grade: This book is an applicable resource to introduce measurement unit using appropriate tools.

·      Introduce measuring unit – Inch on a ruler.
·      Use ruler to measure objects in inches.
·      Compare objects’ length inches.



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