{"id":2184,"date":"2010-01-18T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2184"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:05:15","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-a-second-is-a-hiccup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/18\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-a-second-is-a-hiccup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: A Second is a Hiccup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Second is a Hiccup<\/p>\n

Author: Hazel Hutchins<\/p>\n

Illustrator: Kady MacDonald Denton<\/p>\n

This book is a good resource for helping young students learn how to measure time and understand different lengths of time.\u00a0 The author uses fun ways of telling time in order to make learning how to measure it simple and exciting.\u00a0 For example, as in the title, the author says that a second is like the length of a hiccup, or "The time it takes to kiss your mom\/Or jump a rope\/Or turn around (pgs. 2-3). \u00a0 She goes on to explain measures of time for a minute, an hour, a week, a month, and finally, a year.\u00a0 The author also makes the book interesting by incorporating rhyme into her explanations.\u00a0 For example, to explain the length of a week, she explains that a week is "Seven wake-ups, seven sleeps\/Close your eyes and do not peek\/But you'd never\/ Ever ever\/Stay asleep for one whole week" (pgs. 12-13).<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong>
\nThis book is important in helping students with process skills because it relates to measurement, which is an important part of science. Knowing how to measure time is an important element of learning science concepts as well as how to conduct one's own science experiments.\u00a0 For example, knowing how to measure time helps students to better understand things such as when the Earth came into existence and when certain species first appeared on Earth.<\/p>\n

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