- “Bear Snores On” book
- chart paper (optional)
- marker (optional)
- removable stickers
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.2.a: With guidance and support, recognize and produce rhyming words (e.g., identify words that rhyme with /cat/ such as /bat/ and /sat/).
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Recite Together: “Bear Snores On”
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ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: You may want to copy the words from “Bear Snores On” onto a sheet of chart paper.
Tell children that you are going to reread a few pages from the book Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson.
- Read through the first three pages once with expression as you emphasize the rhymes in each verse. Move your finger under the words to show that print is read from left to right.
- Return to the start. Point to and read the word "lair." Place a removable sticker by the word and tell children you want them to put their hand in the air when they hear a word that rhymes with "lair" as you read the first page. When children identify the word "bear," have a volunteer place a sticker next to the word.
- Continue with the second and third page.
Once children have identified all rhyme words in these pages, return to the rhyme pairs and read them aloud one at a time: "lair/bear." Ask children offer other words that rhyme.
Hold up the book, track, and reread each verse slowly and invite children recite along with you by reading words they know.