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Overview of Lessons
Please read through this entire guide before starting the unit. Familiarize yourself with the
Teacher Resources on the Cornerstones Web site. These include an Activity Workbook that you can
print out and copy for each student in your classroom, several printable games, and interactive
online games.
Key words and essential concepts for understanding “Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type” are
spread over seven lessons. Each word has many dimensions; children should learn at least one
beyond the word’s basic meaning in the story.
Lesson 1
Words: farm/farmer, barn, type/typewriter
Concepts
• Characters: Farmer Brown, cows, hens,
Duck.
• Setting: The story takes place on a farm.
• People and animals have different ways of
communicating.
Lesson 2
Words: note, sincerely
Concepts
• Review the characters and setting of the
story.
• Purpose and pragmatics of notes and
note-writing
Lesson 3
Words: problem, believe, impossible,
electric blankets, to go on strike, closed
Concept
• The story has a problem. The cows will not
give milk unless they get electric blankets.
Lesson 4
Words: busy, to grow impatient, to run a
farm, furious, demand
Concepts
• The story has another problem. The hens
will not give eggs unless they get electric
blankets.
• Farmer Brown and the animals are at an
impasse: Farmer Brown demands that the
cows and hens give milk and eggs. The
cows will not give milk and the hens will
not give eggs unless Farmer Brown gives
them electric blankets. He does not want to
give in.
Lesson 5
Words: neutral, party, ultimatum,
emergency meeting
Concept
•Duck is the neutral party and helps with
the solution to the problem.
Lesson 6
Words: gather, snoop, knock, hand,
exchange
Concept
• The problem is solved. The cows decide
that they will exchange the typewriter for
electric blankets.
Lesson 7
Words: decide, a good deal, pond, boring,
diving board
Concepts
• The story has a conclusion. Farmer Brown
decides that exchanging the typewriter for
electric blankets is a good deal.
•He gives the electric blankets to the cows
and hens. He waits for the typewriter to be
returned to him, but Duck now uses it to
write a new note. Duck says the pond is
boring and asks for a diving board.
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