Guide Sheet: Book s1

GUIDE SHEET: BOOK

TITLE: SCHOOL BUS

BY: DONALD CREWS

Program 1

Supporting Your Child’s Development: This is a simple book that will encourage your child’s cognitive development, because he/she will have to think about what is happening, and why something is happening, in each illustration. The illustrations will help your child learn conceptual language, make comparisons, and tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end – all extremely important skills that are part of early literacy and reading readiness. This book will allow your child to tell the story in a somewhat different way each time, a vital skill in writing readiness, and there are many opportunities in the illustrations to count and to compare size, foundational skills in early numeracy and math readiness.

Remember the following when reading a book with your child:

· Have a good time with this book and the child!

· Invite the child to look and listen.

· Try to sit the child beside you or between you and your PCHP Home Visitor.

· Show and read the title page to the child.

· Show and describe to the child how to turn the pages and treat the book.

· Read to the child in a clear, easy voice. Don’t go too fast. Allow time for the child to think about the story.

· Stop at most illustrations to talk about them. Ask the child questions about the illustrations to help the child reason things out.

Encourage the child to point out and name:

· Colors: Yellow school buses, red lights, orange garbage truck, brown car, white taxi

· Shapes and Sizes: Round wheels, square windows, long school bus, smaller school bus

· Numbers: One school bus, sixteen school buses, etc.

· Relationships: The car is in front of the school bus; the children are going into the school; the buses are next to each other.

Invite the child to tell about experiences related to the story and pictures:

· Have you ever taken a ride on a bus? Who did you go with? Where did you go?

· Have you ever gone to a school?

· Do you ride in a car? Who drives the car? Where do you go?

· How do you cross a street? Do you hold Mommy’s (or Daddy’s) hand when you cross the street? Why?

Have the child reason things out and make choices:

· Why are the school buses empty at the end of the day?

· Where do the school buses go at night?

· Would you like to sit in the front of the bus or in the back of the bus? Why?

· What do the cars have to do when there is the stop sign? What do they have to do when there is a red light? A green light?

Remember throughout the home visit to:

ENCOURAGE the child to talk. PRAISE the child for doing well.

ASK the child questions. HELP the child when needed.

LISTEN to the child’s answers. RESPOND to the child’s answers.

Fun activities:

· Sing The Wheels on the Bus

· Pretend to be driving the bus, beeping the horn, stopping the bus, welcoming the children, waving good-bye

· Play Red Light, Green Light, 1-2-3.

· Pretend that there is a red light, green light, or yellow light and be a driver stopping, going, or slowing the vehicle. Pretend to be a pedestrian, and go when the sign says “walk” and stop when the sign says “Don’t Walk.”

· Take a walk with your child and look for buses, other vehicles, and traffic signs. Name the types of vehicles you see, and name the colors and some of the letters on the signs.