- favorite
- hear
- high
- loud
- low
- soft
- sound
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:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
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: Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound #3
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Stem Key Concepts: Sounds have a source (A sound can be tracked to its source); Different objects make different sounds; Sounds can vary in volume (louder and softer) and pitch (high and low)
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Make Connections, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Tell children you will read aloud Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound by Geoff Waring to review what they learned about sound.
Before You Read
Hold up the book Oscar and the Bat: A Book About Sound and ask children what they remember about the book. (sounds, make-believe animals, real information, animal sounds, etc.)
As You Read
Pause often to encourage children to make connections to what they have been learning about sound. Discuss the sounds featured on the page, and have children act out the sounds. For example,
- On page 22, have children imitate a cow mooing and a baby bird singing. Talk about how sounds can be very different. Ask, What is the same about these two sounds? (animal sounds) What is different? (low/high, deep/soft)
- On page 24 ask, What is Oscar’s favorite sound? What is his mother’s favorite sound? What are some of your favorite sounds? Have children give examples (a squeaky door, purring cat) and describe each sound.
After You Read
Ask children questions that help guide them to make connections between the book and their explorations this week. Ask, What were some of the sounds you heard outside during the listening walk? Do Oscar and the Bat hear those sounds? What do they say about them? Is it the same or different from what you thought about the sounds?