Amanda Short

Interactive Read Aloud

Miss Bindergarten Stays Home from Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
Standards:
RL.K.IA.1 Employ the full range of research-based comprehension
strategies, including making connections, determining importance,
questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for
comprehension.
RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key
details in a text.
Objectives:
Students will identify and use specific comprehension strategies, including
asking and answering questions, to improve understanding of the story.
Vocabulary:
Flu, temperature, substitute, get-well card
Academic Vocabulary:
Rhyming, alphabetical
Lesson 1 (20-25 minutes)
Introductio Activate prior knowledge/experiences/connections:
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It looks like the teacher is going to stay home from school,
can you think of some reasons why a teacher might have to
stay home from school?
Have you ever been sick? What did you do to feel better?
Extend thinking:
Is there anything that you can do to help someone who is
sick to feel better?

During
Reading

Say: While we read, we might find out some ways we can

help keep people from getting sick and maybe even some
ways to help friends feel better if they do get sick!
Ask guiding questions that specifically identify strategies
good readers use.
Planned Questions (remember to read interactively, so take
cues from students interests and responses)
1. Who is Miss Bindergarten calling? (substitute/principal)
Why?
2. What have you noticed about the first letters of the
students names? (alphabetical)
3. What is happening to Franny? (getting sick)
4. Why are Franny and Miss Bindergarten staying home?
5. What kind of cards are the students making for Miss

After
Reading

Bindergarten? (get-well cards)

6. Have you ever made get-well cards for someone?
7. What is happening to Lenny? (getting sick)
8. Whats happening to Raffie?
9. What pattern have you noticed in this story? (Good
readers look for patterns that help them predict what
could happen next and to understand the story.)
10.
Look at this picture, what can you tell about how
the characters in the story feeling? (Good readers use
picture clues to help understand the story.)
11.
How many more students do you think there are
in the storya few or a lot? (Getting near the end of
the alphabet, if children are noticing this pattern.)
12.
What happened to Mr. Tusky? (Got sick too!)
Build on connections to daily classroom routines:
What is the first thing we do when we come into class every
day? (wash hands)
Why do we wash hands so much during the day? (To get rid
of germs and stay healthy.)
Summarize Story Using Strategies:
What did we find out about the students names as we read?
(alphabetical and it helped us to figure out when we were
near the end of the story)
How did the illustrations/pictures help us understand what
was happening?
Why do you think so many people in the school got sick?

Activity
Options

Extend Thinking:
How do you think Miss Bindergarten felt when she got the
cards from her students?
What else could we do for friends who are sick?
Science Experiment: Potato Germs
Materials 2 potato slices for each student.
Have students touch the first bleached slice before they have
had a chance to wash their hands.
Have students wash their hands and then touch the other
slice.
Bag the two slices separately.
Students can then observe the two slices for the rest of the
week, taking notes in their science observation journals.
On the last day, students can take photos of their potato
slices and write a brief summary of the differences and their
understanding of what made it that way. (Germs!)
Art: Get Well Cards (Friendship Cards)
Materials Construction paper, paint, markers, crayons
Students get creative with notes of well wishing for friends or

family.