- build
- materials
MA Standards:
Reading for Informational Text: RI.P.MA.7 With prompting and support, describe important details from an illustration or photograph.
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: Houses and Homes
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STEM Key Concepts: Different materials are useful for making different structures and different parts of structures
ELA Focus Skills: Book Appreciation, Genre
Read Houses and Homes by Ann Morris. Before you read tell children that this is a nonfiction book about different types of houses. Say, The book has information and pictures about real houses all around the world. Set a reading focus for children by having them notice the different materials people use to build houses and how the materials are different because of which materials are available where the houses are built.