- chart paper
- marker
- yellow
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Head Start Outcomes: Language
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness: An awareness that language can be broken into words, syllables, and smaller pieces of sound.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Watch Together: “Yellow” #2 (BTL clip)
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening and Viewing, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Prepare a poem chart with the words of the poem "Yellow" by Barbara Juster Esbensen.
Before You Watch
Tell children that they will watch the video Between the Lions “Yellow” again.
- Read the poem chart through once and point to the word yellow each time you read it.
- Then ask children to listen for the word yellow each time the narrator reads it in the video.
As You Watch
Point to the word yellow on the screen as it is read.
- Have children say the word along with the narrator each time you point to it.
As you watch the second viewing:
Tell children you are going to read the poem again. Say, This time I will clap the two syllables, or the different parts, in the word yellow each time I read the word in the poem. Let's try it first. Demonstrate clapping the word: yel-(clap) low (clap). Have children repeat.
- Read the poem and encourage children to clap the two parts of the word yellow along with you.
- Play the video again and have children join you in clapping the syllables the word yellow each time the narrator reads it.
Yellow
by Barbara Juster Esbensen
Yellow sun
And yellow sky,
A dandelion’s
Yellow eye;
Yellow pollen
Dusts the breeze
And yellow
Lights the summer trees.
A yellow buzzing
Prints the air;
In dappled yellow
Dreams the pear.
And from the finch’s
Yellow throat
One golden, flowing
Yellow note.
Take It Further: For groups with children of varying ages, you may want to challenge older children to take the activity further and clap out each word in the poem. Read the poem slowly, or have an advanced reader read it, and have children clap out each word.
