- One Bean (book)
- bean
- grow
- seed
- soil
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.
Literature/RL.PK.MA.10: Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate literature read aloud.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials.
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.
Science and Technology/Life Sciences 10: Observe and identify the characteristics and needs of living things: humans, animals, and plants.
Read Together: One Bean #1
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STEM Key Concepts: Some plants start from seeds; Plants need water, sunlight, and time to grow; Plants have different parts: roots, stems, leaves, and fruit; Some parts of plants are below the ground and some above; Plants grow in many places; Plants often grow in some type of dirt
ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Making Connections, Recall and Retell, Speaking and Listening, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Before You Read
Show children the cover of One Bean. Point out and read the title and the names of the author and illustrator. Ask children to describe what they see on the cover. Then ask,
- What do you think this story is about?
- What makes you think that? Guide children to use “clues” on the page (e.g., title, illustrations) to make their predictions.
Set a reading focus for children by having think about what the boy does to make the seed grow.
As You Read
Read slowly and with expression. Turn the book around so children can look at the pages as you read.
- Pause at the end of the second page and ask, Why do you think the boy’s bean turned all wrinkly?
- Pause after reading the page that begins, “I watered it when the soil was dry.” Ask,
- What do you think will happen to the boy’s bean when it is down under the soil?
- What do you think it will it look like when it pops up out of the soil?
After You Read
Ask questions such as,
- What do you think the boy might do with some of the seeds?
- What is the same about how the boy in One Bean and the boy in the Carrot Seed take care of their seeds? What is different?
- How is this story like The Carrot Seed? How is it different?
- Hold up the book and do a picture walk as children tell what the boy does to be sure his plant has what it needs to grow.