- Mouse Paint (book)
- color
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1.a: Handle books respectfully and appropriately, holding them right-side-up and turning pages one at a time from front to back.
Foundational Skills/RL.PK.MA.6: With prompting and support, “read” the illustrations in a picture book by describing a character or place depicted, or by telling how a sequence of events unfolds.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts and Conventions: Understands conventions, such as print moves from left to right and top to bottom of a page.
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Recognizes how books are read, such as front-to-back and one page at a time, and recognizes basic characteristics, such as title, author, and illustrator.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 6: Listen to a wide variety of age appropriate literature read aloud.
One-on-One Reading: Mouse Paint #3
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Skill Focus: Color Recognition, Comprehension, Concepts of Print, Interpreting Illustrations, Vocabulary
Read aloud Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh to individuals or small groups.
- Before you read select pages, have children use the illustrations to describe what is happening on the page.
- As you read, have children point to and identify the objects on the page. Then ask them to name the colors of the objects.
- Track the words as you read and encourage children to read as many words as possible with you.
Then do a second reading and invite children to use the illustrations to help them “read” the story to you.
Adaptation: For children in need of a challenge, you may want to have them name what two or more colors are mixed to make some of the colors in the illustrations.