- chart paper
- marker
- yellow
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Head Start Outcomes: Language
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness: An awareness that language can be broken into words, syllables, and smaller pieces of sound.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Watch Together: “Yellow” #2 (BTL clip)
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening and Viewing, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Watch the video poem "Yellow" by Barbara Juster Esbensen. Copy the words onto a sheet of chart paper. Display the poem chart so children can view it easily.
Before You Watch
Tell children that they will watch the Between the Lions video “Yellow” again.
- Draw attention to the "Yellow" poem. Read the poem as you point to the word yellow each time you read it.
- Then ask children to listen for the word yellow each time the narrator reads it in the video.
As You Watch
Point to the word yellow on the screen each time the narrator says it in the video.
- Encourage children to say the word along with the narrator each time you point to it.
As you watch the second viewing:
Read the poem again. Tell children you are going to clap the different parts (or syllables) in the word yellow each time it appears in the poem. Say: Let's try it together first. Demonstrate clapping the word: yel-(clap) low (clap). Have children repeat.
- Read the poem and encourage children to clap the two parts of the word yellow along with you.
- Play the video again and have children join you in clapping the syllables the word yellow each time the narrator reads it.
Take It Further: For groups with children of varying ages, you may want to challenge older children to take the activity further and clap out each word in the poem. Read the poem slowly, or have an advanced reader read it, and have children clap out each word.
"Yellow" from the book "Swing Around the Sun" by Barbara Juster Esbensen. Text copyright ©2003 by Carolrhoda Books, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Carolrhoda Books., Inc., a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this text excerpt may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
