- music
- musical instrument
- sound
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Foundational Skills/RL.PK.MA.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or a poem 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 4, Week 2
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary, Story Comprehension, Recall and Retell
Review the concepts about sound by rereading one of the books of the week or choose a book from the Recommended Books and Media section of the Unit Overview. (Squeak, Rumble, Whomp, Whomp, Whomp by Wynton Marsalis is a particularly good selection for this purpose.)
Discuss the sounds and musical instruments featured in the book. Ask questions such as,
- Do you think that sound is high sound? Low sound? Why?
- What musical instrument do you think this is? What kinds of sounds does it make?