Kindergarten, Reading, Week 1

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook. I read ahead in the text and wrote questions on post-it notes (one for each day) and stuck it on the first page of each story. Here are examples of some of the questions:

Before Reading:

• Look at the picture on page #, what is the family doing?
• Look at the picture on page #, what meal are they eating?

During Reading:

• What does, "Turn off the lights and colors die" mean?
• Where is Joy?
• What color is Joy's sleeping bag?
• On page # what is Toby doing?
• What kind of pal do you think Toby will find?
• Why should Toby get away from the bear and buck?
• What do you think Sal will do with the mitten?

Silent Reading:

• Read this page silently and tell me what Dad had.

We talked about words I didn't think she knew and got their meaning from the context.

Monday was a poem about colors having a story, so we each told a story about a color and we colored pictures.