- crayons
- drawing paper
- Mama Zooms (book)
- markers
- down
- hill
- ramp
- up
- zoom
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or a poem read aloud.
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in a story or poem read aloud.
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.2: With prompting and support, retell a sequence of events from a story read aloud.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.1.e: Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
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: Mama Zooms #2
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
STEM Key Concepts: Understand that a ramp, or inclined plane, is a surface with one end higher than the other; Recognize that an object placed on an inclined plane will roll, slide, or stay put
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Concepts of Print, Interpreting Illustrations, Story Comprehension, Story Elements, Vocabulary
Before You Read
Show children the cover of Mama Zooms by Jane Cowen-Fletcher and read aloud the title. Ask a volunteer to locate the author’s name. Read the name aloud.
Have children look at the cover illustration and describe what Mama and the boy are doing with their arms. Encourage children to mimic the action with their own arms. Ask, What do you notice about the picture that tells you Mama and the boy are going down a ramp or hill? (hair blowing)
As You Read
Read slowly and with expression and pause to have children act out some motions of the story.
- Ask children to describe who they think the boy is pretending to be in different illustrations (jockey, ship captain, race-car driver, etc.).
After You Read
Have children make connections to the story by asking them to describe scenarios such as,
- Share a time they zoomed around
- Share a time they rode on a bicycle with a family member down or up a hill
- Share a time they went zooming down a snow hill
Have children draw a picture of themselves doing one of the actions they describe.
English Language Learners: Have photos of different facial expressions or an expression chart on display. Encourage children to point to a picture or name the feelings the characters show in the read-aloud book. Help them name the feeling word and then make the facial expression to go along with it.
Adaptation: If very young children have trouble deciding what to draw, prompt them by asking questions such as, Have you ever pretended to drive a car? Have you ever pretended to ride a horse? Have you ever pretended to be a grown-up?