- color book (fiction or informational)
- color
- mix
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.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: 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: Educator’s Choice, Unit 2, Week 3, #1
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; A color can have many different shades (from very light to very dark); White paint mixed with a color makes a lighter shade of the color; White paint mixed with a color makes a lighter shade of the color; Two or more colors can be combined to make a new color
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Comprehension, Concepts of Print, Interpreting Illustrations/Photographs, Parts of a Book, Vocabulary
Read aloud a fiction or an informational book about color, such as Little Red and Little Yellow by Leo Leonni, or read Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban again.
Do a picture walk with children. Ask them to tell you if they see any colors in the illustrations/photographs that are the same as the colors they mixed this week. Encourage the discussion with prompts such as, I see blue and yellow on this page. What happens when blue and yellow are mixed?
Adaptation: If you choose to reread a familiar book, you may want to encourage older children to retell the story in their own words before reading aloud. If they wish, they can show the pages and describe what is happening.
English Language Learners: Hold up sheets of paper in various colors as you read about the color in the book. Invite children to say the name of the color in their home language. Have children repeat the word and follow it with the English word. Continue until each child can say the word in their home langage and the English word together. Then help them to use the English word in a a sentences, such as, The sky is blue today.