I laughed out loud when I read this book in the book shop and that was before I knew there was a video of a granny in hysterics reading this to a grandchild . The book was originally published in 2010 but the video went viral and so it has been republished and didn’t we miss a treat first time round!
The premise is quite simple but beautifully executed. The patterned text starts off
I was walking down the road and I saw… a donkey, Hee Haw and he only had three legs!
He was a wonky donkey.
This cumulative pattern continues but the next time he only has three legs and one eye! He is of course a winky wonky donkey. This makes me laugh every time I read it. And so it goes on.
It is a perfect book for reading aloud to a KS1 class (I bet KS2 would enjoy it too) where they can join in. It would also make a great poetry unit of work where you could add more words to the list. I was thinking about him liking to write and being ‘an inky winky wonky donkey’. Alternatively, you could use a different animal. The trick is it needs to end in an /ee/ sound so you might have to add this sound to an animal, e.g. doggy. The vowels do not have to stay the same so it could be a boggy-soggy saggy waggy foggy doggy.
This book would make a great guided reading book for Phase 5+ (Letters and Sounds) guided reading session and a text to teach writing.
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