Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do Paperback – March 25, 2014

I used this book with kindergarten students! They all loved looking for clues to figure out who it was!

Excellent book. Children like books that have a bit of suspense, and this one has that. Each clothesline shows the uniform and tools for a different job and gives the children a chance to guess before turning to the next page with the answer. I used this in a preschool unit about community. I also created a fine motor skills activity to match the book. I used a color copier and printed the clothes and tools on cardstock then laminated them. I did the same for each fully dressed figure. Then tied thin cording between two chairs and created two clotheslines. Using smaller sized clothespins the students took turns sorting the correct uniform pieces to the correct figure. They enjoyed both the book and the activity. Able to store and reuse it again. Highly recommend this book!

This book is very sweet. My 2.5-year-old loves guessing the clues, and it’s a great way to talk about people and jobs in our community.For those commenting on an overrepresenttion of women / unfair gender distribution.... there are seven job roles illustrated in the book. Four are women, three are men. Last I checked, there are more women in the world’s population than men, so this seems like a pretty accurate and fair distribution to me. And I love that my daughter gets to see women in roles that so many other books don’t show — when they should. So it gets more stars from me for that. We’re happy to have it in our collection!

Read this to my preschoolers for a community helpers unit and they loved it!

This book uses inference to teach about the uniforms of different community helpers. I look forward to using this book with the Pre-K classes which I see each week in my school.

This book was so cute for my Kindergarteners. It was catchy, fun and the illustrations were great. It can be used for older kids too. Fun guessing game for kids that involved them in the story and allows them to use their critical thinking skills by using past experience or knowledge to guess the job of the person by their clothing or materials used. ALSO, I love the gender fluidity- there is an excellent mixture of males and females portraying different jobs (female mail carrier, male chef).

I bought this book to go alongside our Community Helpers theme at school. My Pre-Kers loved it and seemed easy enough for them to understand. The only thing I don't like is I wish there were more jobs in the book. But other than that, there are many ways to ask questions and get them engaged with it.

Great book to teach about community helpers