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.
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: Roller Coaster #2
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STEM Key Concepts: A ramp, or inclined plane, is a surface with one end higher than the other; An object placed on an inclined plane will roll, slide, or stay put
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Compare and Contrast, Gross Motor Skills, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to reread Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee. Ask a volunteer to point to the title. Have another volunteer point to the author’s name.
Read slowly and with expression and encourage children to act out the motion words. Track the text and encourage children to read any words they know along with you.
- Point out how the author stretches and places words visually to paint pictures. Pause on the page that begins, “S-l-o-w-l-y.” Ask, How does the way the author uses the word help me see that the car is moving slowly? Point out other type that slopes, dips, swooshes, or goes up and around. Talk about how this helps readers see pictures in their minds.
- Invite children to turn to their favorite page in the book and describe what they see. If they do not know the name of an object, prompt with the first phoneme of the word.
- Encourage children to choose one passenger, such as the man in the orange shirt (in the third row of seats), and follow him on each page to discover how he feels before, on, and after riding the roller coaster.
Educator Tip: Each time you read the story, focus on making sure all children grasp the meaning of one or two unfamiliar words.