The Snowy Day, by Jack Ezra Keats, is about the magic of a little boy’s first experience with a snowy day in the city.
What is included with the book write-up?
- Vocabulary list
- Questions for teaching inferencing skills to enhance comprehension
- Journal prompts
- Detailed activities that cover learning outcomes for Math, Language & Literacy, Science and Art
- Save hours of searching the internet for activity ideas
- Hands on activities with things you can find around the house
Learning Standards covered
- Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories or books
- Children will develop skills in listening for the purpose of comprehension
- Children will develop age appropriate writing skills
- Children will begin to develop age appropriate strategies that will assist in reading (retelling and alphabet knowledge)
- Children will begin to develop an understanding of numbers
- Children will create and duplicate simple patterns
- Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to physical science
- Children will explore and use a variety of materials to develop artistic expression
