Taanishi: Dancing Shapes

Dancing Shapes is a simple text that shows children making different shapes used in the Métis way of dancing.  The inside front cover offers cultural background information and the inside back cover provides instructional suggestions.

Each page has the sentence stem “Let me see you make a ________.”  Photographs support the text directly.

Vocabulary words: let, me, see, you, make, square, circle, star, cross, wheel.

This title is from the Taanishi series. Support literacy learning and introduce beginning readers to Métis language, culture, values, and traditions.