Kindergarden Read - Aloud

Presidents and American Symbols: Supplemental Guide 5B | Thomas Jefferson 89

 Show image 5A-7: Jefferson writing in the inn

Directions: Look at the picture. You and your partner will ask and answer

questions based on what you heard in the read-aloud and what you see

in the picture.

1. First, one of you should make up a question about the picture using
   who. Then, your partner should answer that question.


2. Next, one of you should make up a question about the picture using
   what. Then, your partner should answer that question.


3. Next, one of you should make up a question about the picture using
   when. Then, your partner should answer that question.


4. Next, one of you should make up a question about the picture using
   where. Then, your partner should answer that question.


5. Finally, one of you should make up a question about the picture using
   why. Then, your partner should answer that question.
   Variations

• Use Response Card 2 to continue asking and answering questions.


• Do this activity as a class with one group asking questions and the
  other group answering.


• Do this activity with home-language pairs.

 Vocabulary Instructional Activity

Word Work: Admired

1. In the read-aloud you heard, “France admired—or respected—
   America’s love of freedom and liberty, so they gave the statue as a
   gift.”


2. Say the word admired with me three times.


3. Admired means respected, or looked up to.


4. I admired the firefighters for saving the family from the dangerous fire.


5. Tell your partner about someone you admire and why you admire that
   person. Try to use the word admire when you tell about this person.
   [Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide and/or rephrase the
   students’ responses: “I admire because... ”]


6. What’s the word we’ve been talking about?