- float
- flow
- sink
- waves
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.10: Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate literature 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: Toy Boat #3
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STEM Key Concepts: Objects behave differently in water; Some things float; Some things sink; Solids have physical characteristics that can be observed and described
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Compare and Contrast, Comprehension (Recall and Retell), Making Connections, Phonological Awareness (Rhyme and Repetition), Predicting, Sequencing, Vocabulary
Before You Read
Read the title and ask children to retell what they remember about the book. Tell children you are going to read the book again and ask them to focus on all the things that might make the toy boat sink and how they could make it sink.
As You Read
- Pause as the toy boat goes over waves and gets close to the other boats. Ask, What do you think would happen if the water from the waves fills up the little boat? (sink) Why do you think that?
- Pause after the little boat comes across a fleet of sailboats and ask, Why do you think the sailboats needed to get out of the rain?
- Pause after the boat looks like it would sink. Ask, Why do you think the boat did not sink? Help children notice how the water is flowing out of the boat.
After You Read
Ask children to retell events in the book and describe the things the boat went through. Encourage children to use sensory descriptions as they retell events, for example, how the water felt, how the storm sounded, how the boat smelled, etc. Ask,
- Do you think a real toy boat would be able to float through all those events or do you think it would sink? Why do you think that?