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By Leo Lionni
Leo Lionni’s //Inch by Inch// is a story about an inchworm that is proud of his ability to measure things. One day a robin was about to eat him, but the inchworm stopped him because of his usefulness. The robin then has him measure his tail to prove his ability to measure. After the inchworm measures the robin’s tail, he goes off to measure parts of other animals. At the end of the story, a nightingale asks the inchworm to measure his song. The inchworm is perplexed by this task, but eventually finds a solution.
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__** Review **__ This story is perfect as an introduction to measurement. Students often learn to measure with objects first, rather than rulers and other measuring instruments. In this case, an inchworm uses itself to measure animal parts. After reading this book, parents and teachers can teach children how to measure objects using different tools other than rulers.

__** Author Information **__ Leo Lionni was born in Amsterdam in 1910. He moved to Italy before moving to the United States in 1939. He returned to Italy in 1962 where he began writing and illustrating children's books. As well as being the author of forty children's books, Lionni is famous for his sculptures, paintings, drawing, collages, mosaics, designs, posters, and advertisements. In his lifetime, he won four Caldecott Honors Awards, which are awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. //Inch by Inch// won a Caldecott Honors Award.

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__** Connection to Literacy **__ This book would work well for a first-grade shared reading lesson where students are working on phonemic awareness and specifically segmenting words into sounds. //Inch by Inch// contains a lot of tier one words with which young students would be familiar, so they can use those words to begin learning what the individual sounds in words are. The teacher can use Elkonin Boxes with words like "inch," "twig," "tail," and "song" from the story to separate the words into their individual sounds.

__** Internet Resources for Lesson Ideas **__ [|Measurement Lesson] [|Inch Poster Lesson] [|Multiple Content Area Lessons] [|Lessons for Leo Lionni books]

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