- down
- hill
- move
- ramp
- slide
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.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizes that the letters of the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
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: Ten on the Sled, #2
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STEM Key Concepts: An object placed on an inclined plane will roll, slide, or stay put; Objects that slide are more likely to move on steeper inclines, and both rolling and sliding objects move faster down steeper inclines
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening, Concepts of Print, Interpreting Illustrations, Story Comprehension, Vocabulary, Word Recognition
Before You Read
Show children the cover of Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman and have them read the title aloud with you. Ask children to tell you what they remember about the book. Say, What is the book about? What is the main thing the book is about? (animals sledding down a hill) Tell children that this is called the main idea of a story—what the story is mainly about. Say, The main idea is about animals sledding down a hill and falling off as they go.
Then set a reading focus for children and have them listen to understand why the animals keep falling off the sled so they can make connections to their exploration of ramps, steepness, and how different things slide down hills.
As You Read
Ask questions such as,
- How do you think the sled will move down the hill? (slide)
- Point to the snowball on the hill and ask, How do you think the snowball will move down the hill? (roll)
- Follow the snowball as it rolls down the hill and gets bigger and bigger each time an animal ends up in it.
- Pause on the page, “There were six on the sled.” Point out the position of the sled in midair and discuss what might have caused this to happen. (flying or bouncing off the incline) Ask, Did this ever happen to an object you sent down a ramp when you were exploring sliding objects down ramps? When did it happen?
- Pause on the page, “There were two on the sled.” Ask, Why do you think the bear bailed out, or jumped out of the sled? (going to collide with the snowball)
After You Read
Talk with children about the book. Ask questions such as,
- Was there anything in this book that helped you learn something new about sliding or rolling down hills?
- Why do you think the snowball got bigger and bigger as it rolled down the hill? (more snow, animals)
Social Emotional Tip: Acknowledge children who sustain attention to tasks, listen and watch actively, and participate in discussions.