- explore
- family
- feel
- friend
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.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative & Curiosity: Asks questions and seeks new information.
Language Development/
Receptive Language: Comprehends different forms of language, such as questions or exclamations.
Language Development/
Expressive Language: Engages in communication and conversation with others.
Language Development/
Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Literacy Knowledge/ Book Appreciation & Knowledge: Shows interest in shared reading experiences and looking at books independently.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts 6: Listen to a wide variety of age appropriate literature read aloud.
English Language Arts 10: Engage actively in read-aloud activities by asking questions, offering ideas, predicting or retelling important parts of a story or informational book.
English Language Arts 13: Relate themes and information in books to personal experiences.
Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 1, Week 1, #2
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Reread one of the books from the week, or select a book from the “Recommended Books” list in the Unit Overview.
Depending on the book you choose to read, review topics from the week, such as,
- identifying family members and their roles in the family
- what a friend is
- different ways you can feel when you are with a friend
Have children make connections to their own lives by asking questions such as,
- Do you and your friend like to explore like the boys in the story?
- What kinds of things do you and your family do that are similar to the family in the story?
- What new things did the friends learn together? What new things did you and a friend learn together this week?