- Tap Tap Bang Bang (book)
- real tools
- tool
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or a poem read aloud.
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.
Read Together: Tap Tap Bang Bang #1
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STEM Key Concepts: Different materials are useful for making different structures and different parts of structures
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Comprehension (Main Idea), Vocabulary
Before You Read
Show children the cover of Tap Tap Bang Bang and point to each word in the title as you read it. Have children point to the name of the author/illustrator. Read the name aloud. Then have children look at the cover illustration and ask, What do you think the book will be about? As children respond, help them see the humor in giving the tools eyes.
Ask children to recall the book they read last week, Building a House. Ask, What tools did workers use to build the house in the book we read last week? Discuss how workers used hammers, saws, etc. Then set a listening focus for children by having them notice all the tools in the book Tap Tap Bang Bang and how they are the same and different from the tools in the book they read last week.
As You Read
Read slowly and with expression.
- Pause occasionally to point out a few tools and have children identify the tool.
- Encourage children to repeat the tool sounds as you read.
After You Read
Talk about the book with children. Ask questions such as,
- Do you like the book? Which is your favorite part?
- What did this book help you learn about tools?
Take It Further: Give children examples of several meanings for words like level, nails, and measure. For example, Park on the ground level at the mall/This wobbly table is not level/Tell me, on the level, is it true?; Hammer the nails in the wood/I have nails on my fingers and toes; I need to measure how high my tower is/I need a tape measure. Have props on hand to help children understand the different meanings of the words. Guide children to understand that the sentence can give clues to the meaning of a word.