Read and Understand Stories and Activities Grade K

Read and Understand Stories and Activities Grade K Read and Understand Grade K is a resource book containing stories and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills. The 23 stories vary in reading difficulty to be appropriate to meet the range of needs of emerging readers in the average kindergarten. Each story is followed by four or five pages of activities for practicing prereading skills such as: retelling a story developing vocabulary auditory and visual discrimination recognition of color words sequencing Specific skills practices are listed under each story in the table of contents. Each story is designed to encourage students to apply and connect story information and newly acquired reading skills to their own experiences. The stories and practice materials can be used for directed mini-lessons with small groups or individual students or as independent practice in class or at home. Congratulations on your purchase of some of the finest teaching materials in the world. For information about other Evan-Moor products, call 1-800-777-4362 or FAX 1-800-777-4332 http://www.evan-moor.com Entire contents copyright 1997 by EVAN-MOOR CORP. 18 Lower Ragsdale Drive, Monterey, CA 93940-5746 Author: Jill Norris Editor: Marilyn Evans Illustrator: Jo Larsen Desktop Design: Jo Larsen Permission is hereby granted to the individual purchaser to reproduce student materials in this book for noncommercial individual or classroom use only. Permission is not granted for school-wide, or system-wide, reproduction of materials. Printed in U.S.A. EMC 637 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 145 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637

Introduction... 2 Time to Go... 4 recalling details; word meaning; small motor skills; auditory discrimination /d/ A Pair... 10 recalling details; singular/plural; auditory discrimination /s/; critical thinking The Pet Store... 16 recalling details; deductive reasoning; auditory discrimination /c/; color words Up and Down... 22 word meaning; positional words; visual discriminationshapes; prewriting Where Does It Sleep?... 28 recalling details, prewriting; auditory discrimination /b/; word meaning; following directions Let s Go for a Ride... 34 recalling details; auditory discrimination /w/; color words; critical thinking Cars... 40 following directions; number words; big/little, prewriting; auditory discrimination /l/ Which Hat?... 46 recalling details, critical thinking; rhyming; matching; auditory discrimination /h/ In the Sky... 52 sequencing, retelling the story; auditory discrimination /r/; critical thinking; dot-to-dot Little Quackers... 58 retelling the story; auditory discrimination /qu/; following directions; deductive reasoning Herbie... 64 recalling details; auditory discrimination /j/; visual discrimination; prewriting Table of Contents Animal Babies... 70 matching; realism/fantasy; sequencing; word meaning The Rainbow... 76 color words; auditory discrimination /y/; following directions; counting Can You?... 82 word meaning; answering questions; rhyming; dot-to-dot Read the Beads... 88 recalling details; counting; color words; patterning; rhyming The Ball Game... 94 sequencing, retelling the story; auditory discrimination /m/; classification, critical thinking; prewriting Swim, Swim... 100 retelling the story; opposites; color words; big/little Stop and Go... 106 sequencing, retelling the story; letter/sound association /t/; word meaning; prewriting Trucks... 112 recalling details, predicting; auditory discrimination /tr/; visual discrimination; prewriting The Parade... 118 word meaning; word families (-at); visual discrimination Where Are the Pups?... 124 recalling details; letter/sound association /p/; suffix-s; following directions; answer written questions In the Car... 131 recalling details; critical thinking; word families (-ing); categorizing; prewriting Growing Up... 138 recalling details; deductive reasoning, prewriting; sequencing; rhyming, critical thinking 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 1 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637

1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 31 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 62 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 91 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637 Using the Stories in this Book Introduction Stories are provided at a variety of levels ranging from simple words that name pictures for prereaders to more complex text for emerging readers. All of the stories include a picture Story Dictionary and illustrations that enhance the text. Reproduce the stories in this book and prepare story booklets for individual students. foot A Pair Picture Dictionary sock 1 shoe feet socks My book: shoes Before giving a new reading story to a student or group of students, take time to develop a context of experiences that will help your readers to succeed. You may: read the stories together, have small groups of students read the stories, have partners read a story together, or have individuals read the stories independently. Use the skill pages following the stories: to assess students comprehension, to reinforce emergent reading skills, to reinforce phonics instruction, and to provide opportunities for students to develop and practice oral and written language. Name Same Sound Circle the pictures that begin with the same sound as. Name Make a Duck Cut, fold, and paste to make a duck. Name How Many? Write to tell how many. Then color the beads. boy body red blue green fold paste purple purple orange orange black brown red bill fold head paste orange blue green purple purple Quack! purple green purple green 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 2 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637

1.Prereading experiences Steps to Follow Concrete experiences that help to develop vocabulary about the subject of a story are important to the success of reading the story. For example: Draw attention to your dismissal time practices before readingtime to Go. Pattern with colored beads before reading Read the Beads. Eat a snack on the playground and fly a kite before reading In the Sky. Ask questions to help students make connections to their own experiences. Before reading The Pet Store, you might ask Have you ever visited a pet store? What animals did you see? Where were the animals kept? 2.Preview the story with your students 3.Read Look first at the words presented in the Story Dictionary. Who can use the Story Dictionary to read the new words from the story? Then page through the story together. Have the readers look at the illustrations and predict what they think is happening on the pages. Listen closely to the vocabulary used. Suggest words or phrases that are used in the story vocabulary that seem to be unfamiliar to the readers. What kinds of things do kittens do? They run, jump, pounce, scratch, play, and meow. You may want to write words as you talk about them or ask the readers to locate the words on a specific page. Can you find the word Meow on this page? 4.Completing skill pages Before expecting students to complete the skill pages independently, model appropriate responses with your students. Some of the phrases in the directions on the skill pages will need to be read with students. When students draw in a response to a question, provide an opportunity for the students to describe and explain their drawing. If possible, write what they say beside their pictures. 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 3 Read and Understand Grade K EMC 637

Time to Go Picture Dictionary 1 coat dad hat My book: my coat 2 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 4 EMC 637

3 my hat Time to go. my dad 4 1997 by Evan-Moor Corp. 5 EMC 637