- music
- silence
- 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.
Literature: RL.PK.MA.3 With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or poem read aloud.
Language: L.PK.MA.4 Ask and answer questions about the meanings of new words and phrases introduced through books, activities, and play.
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: Kitchen Dance #2
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ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Listening and Speaking, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Before You Read
Tell children you are going to reread Kitchen Dance by Maurice Manning. Set a reading focus for children by asking them to listen to all the sounds in the story. For example, Listen for the sounds the girl hears when she wakes up? What does the girl hears when her Papa brings her to bed?
As You Read
- Act out the action and sound words as you read. (tiptoe, creep, twirl, clang, etc.) Say, The father and mother “Twirl around and around in a circle.” Can you twirl around in a circle?
- Say, This is a book with lots of sounds, but there is one part of the book where there is silence. Turn to the page with the text “There is silence for a moment. Then …” Talk about the illustrations and how they show different actions. Then ask, What do you think silence is? Do you think we can all be silent? Let’s try.
After You Read
Help children make connections to the book. Ask,
- How did the music make the family feel? Did the family’s faces show the emotion they were feeling? How?
- What happened when the music slowed down? Can you show me?
- What were your favorite sounds in the book? Why? How would you feel if you heard them?