Catherine- Week 6 Blog Posting- Fox in Socks

Fox in socks begins by introducing the Fox and Knox along with the props such as box and a pair of socks. As the story continues more rhymes are used and more props are introduced (e.g. the chicks, bricks, clocks). The Fox explains the situations as the book progresses, the rhymes become more complex and Knox begins to complain about the complexity of the tongue twisters. Finally Fox creates a massive tongue twister about the tweetle beetles and Knox is so fed up with the complexity of the rhyme that he stuffes the fox into the bottle with the tweetle beetles. Knox finishes the story by thanking the Fox and walking away.

 

 

 

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss is a tongue twister, limerick children’s book. As the book progresses the limericks become more complicated and the Fox complicates the situations within the limericks and props. This book would be a great teacher resource in a primary class as it is very engaging with its humorous limericks and conveys joy to the reader through this. Fox in Socks is a great book for students who are learning to read as it makes them read word by word slowly to begin with because of its complexity. Fox is Socks, is full of alliteration, shown in the following example.

While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze.
That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

The writing style of this book typically consists of two short syllables followed by one longer one, as shown below.

eg. “Stop! Stop!, Enough!”.   

 Catherine