Kindergarden - Plants

Plants: Supplemental Guide 1A | Introduction to Plants 27

Discussing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

Comprehension Questions

If students have difficulty responding to questions, reread pertinent lines

of the read-aloud and/or refer to specific images. If students give one-

word answers and/or fail to use read-aloud or domain vocabulary in their

responses, acknowledge correct responses by expanding the students’

responses using richer and more complex language. Encourage students

to answer in complete sentences. Model answers using complete

sentences for students.

1. Inferential What is today’s lesson about?
   
   
   • Today’s lesson is about plants.
   
   
   
   


2. Literal What three things do all living things need to grow and stay
   alive?
   
   
   • All living things need food, water, and air to grow and stay alive.
   
   
   
   


3. Inferential Are plants living or nonliving?
   
   
   • Plants are living.
     What did you learn about in this lesson that makes you think plants
     are living things?
   
   
   • Plants need food, water, and air. And plants produce young plants like
     themselves.
   
   
   
   


4. Literal Plants need four things to live. What four things do plants
   need?
   
   
   • Plants need food, water, air, and light to live.
      Show image 1A-3: Hardwood forest
   
   
   
   

 Show image 1A-5: Desert cactus

 Show image 1A-7: City park

5. Literal Name the place or environment shown in each picture.
   
   
   • The first picture shows a forest; the second picture shows a desert; and
     the third picture shows a park.