- My Family Plays Music (book)
- toy instruments
- cello
- clarinet
- cymbal
- fiddle
- guitar
- hand bell
- jazz
- musical instrument
- tambourine
- triangle
- wind chimes
- wood block
MA Standards:
English Language Learners/Literature/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.
English Language Learners/Literature/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: My Family Plays Music #3
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Skill Focus: Story Comprehension, Vocabulary, Make Connections
Read aloud My Family Plays Music by Judy Cox to individuals or small groups. Direct children to look carefully at the illustrations to find and name the different instruments the family members are playing. Ask, Would you like to play any of these musical instruments? Can you find some of these instruments in our room?
Encourage children to find the instruments, or pictures of them, on the Musical Instrument wall.