A Visitor for Bear   by Bonny Becker (2008)

I read this charming story to my preschoolers, and then we talked about Bear's sign. The book lends itself to both letter knowledge and print awareness .  I told the children  that signs could be made of letters, words, or pictures.  I showed them a few pages from a Tana Hoban book, I Read Symbols, and we tried to decipher the signs.  Then we all made our own signs, using this template.  (Some fantastic signs were created, among my favorites: No Carrots, No Finn (the big brother), No Opening Upper Drawers (?), and the classic No Grown Ups.)

Brianne