- color
- favorite
MA Standards:
Reading for Informational Texts/RI.P.MA.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about an informational text read aloud.
Reading for Informational Texts/RI.P.MA.7: With prompting and support, describe important details from an illustration or photograph.
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: Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? #3
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Parts of a Book, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Before You Read
Hold up Is It Red? Is It Blue? Is It Yellow? by Tana Hoban and point to the photograph on the cover. Remind children that this book has photographs of real things that they might see in their environment, or all around them. Say, The author helps us to see that there is color in our world all around us.
As You Read
Read the title and ask children to read it along with you. Invite them to choose favorite pages to revisit.
- Prompt children to name the color of the dots on the page and then point to where the colors are in that photograph.
- As children describe what they see, they may not know the name the object in the photograph. Encourage them to name it the best they can (such as, "a big yellow machine thing") and then give them the name of the object or ask if anyone knows the name of the object.
After You Read
Talk about the book with children. Have children flip through the book and point out their favorite photograph.
- After children have all identified a favorite photograph. Have them turn to a buddy and tell him or her why it is their favorite and tell about an object they have seen that is like the one in the photograph.
- Encourage the buddy to ask questions about the color, the size, etc. of the object. Then have children switch roles.