- chart paper
- marker
- city
- country
- loud
- louder
- quiet
- soft
- softer
- sound
MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or a poem read aloud.
Literature/RL.PK.MA.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 6: Listen to a wide variety of age appropriate literature read aloud.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 10: Engage actively in read-aloud activities by asking questions, offering ideas, predicting or retelling important parts of a story or informational book.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 3, Week 2
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Reread one of the books of the week, watch the video Between the Lions “Night in the Country,” or select a book from the recommended book list and focus on the sounds in the book.
- Ask children to pay attention to the sounds in the book and to categorize the sounds as either loud, quiet, or soft, and/or as city or country sounds.
- Create categories and write children’s answers on chart paper.
- You can also have children compare the sounds in the book using vocabulary such as loud, louder, soft, softer.