Kindergarden - Kings and Queens

70 Kings and Queens: Supplemental Guide 3 | Old King Cole

At a Glance Exercise Materials Minutes

Introducing the Read-Aloud

Story Review Instructional Master 2B-1Image Cards 1–6;

15

Introducing “Old King Cole” Instructional Master 3A-1

Vocabular y Preview: Soul,

Fiddler

Response Card 2;

music with fiddle tunes;

pictures or examples of

stringed instruments

Purpose for Listening

Presenting the Read-Aloud Old King Cole music for “Old King Cole”;video of “Old King Cole”^10

Discussing the Read-Aloud

Comprehension Questions Response Card 2

10

Word Work: Merry

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions

Rhyming Words

Syntactic Awareness Activity: Sentence Builder 15

Domain-Related Trade Book

Advance Preparation

For Story Review, use the sequence of story events for “King Midas and

the Golden Touch” (Instructional Master 2B-1) and Image Cards 1–6 to

help students retell the story.

Prepare a copy of Instructional Master 3A-1 for each student. Refer to

it as Response Card 2 (Old King Cole). Students can use this Response

Card for discussion, review, and to answer questions.

For Vocabulary Preview, find music with fiddle tunes to play for the class

(e.g., some folk music songs have fiddles in them). You may wish to save

the music for after the lesson and have the class move around to the

beat of the fiddle. In addition, prepare images or examples of various

stringed instruments, (e.g., guitar, ukulele, violin, viola, harp, cello, bass.)

For Presenting the Read-Aloud, find music for “Old King Cole” to play to

the class as they learn this nursery rhyme. You may also wish to find a

child-friendly video of “Old King Cole” for students to enjoy after learning

this nursery rhyme.

For the Domain-Related Trade Book activity, you may wish to tell

students additional nursery rhymes about royalty; (refer to the list of

rhymes in the activity).