Kindergarden Read - Aloud

30 Presidents and American Symbols: Supplemental Guide 1B | The Home of the President: Washington, D.C.

Interactive Opportunity

• Say to students: “Think of a way that a dog can be man’s best friend.
  Then tell your partner about it. Use the saying, ‘a dog is man’s best
  friend’ when you tell about it. I will call on a few of you to share.” Allow
  one minute for partners to talk. If needed, provide the sentence frame:
  “A dog is a man’s best friend when he/she ...”.

 Syntactic Awareness Activity

Prepositions of Movement (to, from)

Note: There may be variations in the sentences created by your class.

Allow for these variations and restate students’ sentences so that

they are grammatically correct. Have students repeat the corrected

sentence.

[Follow-up with a kinesthetic activity by having students use

movements to show the meaning of a preposition.]

Directions: Today we are going to practice using words that are used to

show relationships between other words. We will practice using these

small words—to and from—to help us describe the direction in which

something is moving.

 Show image 6B-3: North America and explorer’s ship

[Point to each figure in the image as you refer to it.]

1. This is a picture of North America and an explorer’s ship.
   [Point to North America.] Which continent is this?
   
   
   • This continent is North America.
     [Point to the explorer’s ship.] What is this?
   
   
   • It is an explorer’s ship.
   
   
   
   


2. There are some special words we use to talk about the direction in
   which things are moving. The word to is a word we use to talk about
   the direction in which something is moving.
   Say the word to with me three times.


3. [Point to Image 1 on the top half of this image.] The explorer is sailing
   to North America.
   When something is moving to a place, it is heading toward, or closer
   to, that place.
   Which word did we use to talk about the direction in which the
   explorer’s ship is sailing? (to)