Kindergarden Read - Aloud

50 Presidents and American Symbols: Supplemental Guide 3 | A Clever General

At a Glance Exercise Materials Minutes

Introducing the Read-Aloud

What Have We Learned? Kings/Queens vs. Presidents Venn diagram

15

Essential Background

Information or Terms

Image Cards 10 and 11;

world map

Vocabular y Preview:

General/Colonel

Image 3A-2

Purpose for Listening

Presenting the Read-Aloud A Clever General world map^10

Discussing the Read-Aloud

Comprehension Questions Idea Web from Lesson 2

10

Word Work: Clever drawing paper, drawing tools [optional]

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions

Multiple Meaning Word Activity:

Line

Poster 1M (Line)

15

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Prepositions of Movement:

toward, away

Images 6B-1 and 6B-2

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Convince

End-of-Lesson Check-In

Note to Teacher

The setting of today’s read-aloud is during the time of the American

Revolution. Explain to students that during this time the same king

ruled England and the American colonies. Point to England on a

world map and run your finger across the Atlantic Ocean to where

the American colonies were located. Emphasize that a king from a

faraway place, England, ruled people across the Atlantic Ocean, in the

American colonies. Explain that the Founding Fathers, including George

Washington, did not want to be ruled by a king. Be sure that students

understand that the United States had not been formed yet and that the

American colonists were fighting for their freedom from the British king.