- Who Sank the Boat? storyboard and story figures
- story puppets (see Art Center)
- float
- sink
MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.3: With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or poem read aloud.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Retells stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama.
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Engages in pretend play and acts out roles.
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
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.
Retelling: Who Sank the Boat?
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Skill Focus: Imaginative Play, Comprehension (Recall and Retell), Sequencing, Story Structure, Vocabulary
After reading the story and demonstrating how to use the storyboard, encourage individual and small groups of children to use these materials or the puppets they made in the Art Center to act out the story on their own. Have children assume a role of one of the characters and use any props in the Center to add to their retelling. Be available to help them recall events if they start to tell it out of sequence or forget the story, and remind them of how objects float and sink.