- color book
- color
- dark
- darker
- darkest
- light
- lighter
- lightest
- shade
MA Standards:
Reading for Informational Texts/RI.P.MA.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about an informational text read aloud.
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, #2
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; Two or more colors can be combined to make a new color
ELA Focus Skills: Interpreting Illustrations and Photographs, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Read aloud one of your favorite books about colors.
You may also want to reread It’s Red, It’s Yellow, It’s Blue by Tana Hoban.
- This time revisit the colors red, yellow, and blue.
- Encourage children to initiate the discussion as they take turns identifying and naming the colors in the pictures.
- Have childen identify shades of color. Encourage them to name them in order using color vocabulary such as light, lighter, lightest, dark, darker, darkest
Adaptation: If younger children have trouble concentrating on many colors, have them identify one color in all the photographs.
English Language Learners: Encourage children to identify the colors in their native language first and then repeat the color in English. Pair them with strong English speakers if they are having difficulty recalling the English word.