- leaf
- plant
- root
- stem
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.
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 8, Week 1
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different types of plants; Plants have different parts: roots, stems, and leaves; Many foods that animals, including humans, eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Vocabulary
Read aloud to children Chicks and Salsa, Eating the Alphabet, or a book of your choice. Talk with children about all of the plants that animals in the book that animals eat. Have children describe the foods using color words, texture words, and sensory words. Help them identify whether foods are from the root, stem, flower, seed, bulb, or leaf.