- One Bean (book)
- bean
- blossom
- bud
- leaves
- pod
- potting soil
- root
- sprout
- stalk
- sunshine
- wrinkly
MA Standards:
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.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.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms: Inheritance and Variation of Traits/LS1/3.D: Recognize stages of the life cycle of plants and animals they have observed and discuss ideas about what happens at each stage. [Patterns, Change]
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Shows interest in shared reading experiences and looking at books independently.
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.
One-on-One Reading: One Bean
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Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Predicting, Sequencing, Vocabulary
Remind children that beans (and all seeds) have the beginnings of a plant.
- As you read, pause to explain the meaning of unfamiliar words or phrases. Place greater emphasis on the words that have been the focus of the unit (i.e., plant, root, stalk). Act out the meaning of words and phrases such as had turned wrinkly, gotten fatter, split, potting soil, dangling.
- If you have not read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk with the children, when you come to this reference, say, That’s a story about a boy who plants a magic bean that grows into a gigantic bean stalk. Some day maybe we can read it. Then continue with the text on the page.