- Who Sank the Boat? (book)
- boat
- float
- sink
- weight
MA Standards:
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.
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: Who Sank the Boat?
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Skill Focus: Book Appreciation, Compare and Contrast, Concepts of Print, Story Comprehension, Story Structure, Vocabulary
Read aloud Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen to individuals or small groups. Read the story once without pausing.
Then reread the story and as you read,
- Talk about what happens when all the big, heavy animals get into the small boat as floats on the water.
- Encourage children to read any words they know.
- Pause on the page where the mouse is jumping into the boat. Have childen predict what will happen next. After reading the page say, I wonder why the smallest animal made the boat sink? Talk about how the boat could continue to float on the water when even a little bit of weight was added to it.
- Then, invite children to use the illustrations to help them read the story you.