There are a lot of great action verbs in this story. Vocabulary, Alliteration, and Concrete Poetry Take some time to explain the different definitions. Some of those words in this book are count and value. Words that hold one meaning in regular language and another in the content areas challenging for all students, but particularly difficult for English Language Learners (ELL). The word value has meaning in everyday speech and a different meaning in math.
Students can write how it’s important to value others or about the value they add to the class or school.
This is time for all students to see that everyone is valuable and provides value for the class as a whole and that it’s important to be nice to everyone. Have students either explain their own value or have students share why others in the class have value. We learn from the book that everyone has value. This is a great opportunity for students to make connections to this story. Have the students explain how the character is changing and what events led to this change. As the book continues he finds a way to “have value.” At this point, the character is changing. While he specifically says that, have students explain his behavior according to how he feels about himself.
Zero does not feel he has value and or fits in the beginning. Since the numbers are personified, we can treat Zero as a character. With older students, this book would also lend itself to discussing place value (tens and ones).Ĭharacterization, Making Connections, and Writing Many times younger students (sometimes even older students!) have a hard time seeing the “value” in zero. This is a great picture book that explains how zero has a value and is a number. There are many literacy and math lessons that can be taught with this book.īefore I begin, let’s be reminded that I am not a math specialist, but you can’t help but teach math with this book. This is a great book for primary classrooms. Finally, he triumphs as he realizes he can create new numbers, by joining forces with the others. My teacher brain was going non-stop! There’s a strong theme or moral to the story, great characters, math content, rhyming, alliteration, multiple meaning words, etc.! Essentially, Zero is a number that feels different and doesn’t “count.” Despite multiple attempts to blend or be like the others and to find value, he repeatedly fails. I can definitely see how kids would love the book with its enjoyable story line, color coordinated numbers, and sentences arranged all over the page in a large font. I finally saw it at the local library and had to check it out – literally! Mostly because it’s a math book and my concentration has always been ELA/R and Social Studies. It’s one of those picture books that kept coming up on blogs and in stores, but I never picked it up.
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