- Red Is a Dragon (book)
- color
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/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.
Foundational Skills/RL.PK.MA.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in a story or poem read aloud.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Print Concepts and Conventions: Understands conventions, such as print moves from left to right and top to bottom of a page.
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Recognizes how books are read, such as front-to-back and one page at a time, and recognizes basic characteristics, such as title, author, and illustrator.
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: Red Is a Dragon #2
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Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Read aloud Red Is a Dragon by Roseanne Thong to individuals or small groups.
- As you read each page, have children point to and identify the objects and describe the color of each object.
- There will be many words in the story that are unfamiliar to children, so allow them the opportunity to ask about unfamiliar words as you read. Point to each picture as you define the word. Then, encourage children to read as many words as possible with you.
- Then, invite children to use the illustrations to help them “read” the story to you.