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One-on-One Reading: Spicy Hot Colors

Materials

Spicy Hot Colors (book)

Vocabulary

color
dark
lap
light
shade
spicy

Standards

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.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in a story or poem read aloud.

Head Start Outcomes:

Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Shows interest in shared reading experiences and looking at books independently.

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 15: Listen to, recognize, and use a broad vocabulary of sensory words.
L.PK.MA.4: Ask and answer questions about the meanings of new words and phrases introduced through books, activities, and play.

One-on-One Reading: Spicy Hot Colors

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Skill Focus: Color Recognition, Concepts of Print, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary

Read Spicy Hot Colors by Sherry Shahan aloud to individuals or small groups. Read through one time without pausing. For a second read:

Invite children to participate by saying the words that imitate sounds (onomatopoeia), such as drip, drop, snap, bang, pop, sizzle, flitter-flutter, and so on.
Pause to explain the meaning of unfamiliar words or phrases such as spicy, chili sauce, sarapes, gourds, lap, wrap, cilantro, and musical terms like boogie-woogie, razmatazz, rhumba, samba, bolero, la-bomba, and La Cucaracha. Use the illustrations and gestures to help children understand the meanings.
Ask questions about the book to prompt connections such as, Wow! Look at all the shades of red on this page. Some are dark and some are light. Put your finger on a dark color and ask, Is this a dark shade or a light shade of green? How about this one? Continue with other colors. Allow children to point to a color and begin the prompting for other children.