A Job for a Clown

A Job for Clown is a humorous fiction story about a clown trying to find a new job. Clown tried being a taxi driver and a balloon pilot, but neither seemed to go well. Clown found a job reading to kids and the kids loved him! The story is narrated with dialogue and newspaper advertisements.

A Job for Clown is a simple narrative story. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Illustrations match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the bold text type as well as the layout and design of an advertisement. There is an exemplar at the end of the book to show different job advertisements in newspapers. An activity on making their own advertisement for a job is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such as interest words (taxi), high-frequency words (looking), and compound words (newspaper). Opportunities arise to discuss capital letters for the beginning of names (Clown), full stops, commas, quotation marks, ellipses, and exclamation marks. Focus on blend cl (clown), word family own (clown), and suffix ed (looked).

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