The Sun and the Moon | Read Aloud
Support Materials
Grownups – Here are some fun activities to engage your little learners even further:
🌝 In the story, we learned that the moon has an orbit, which means it follows a path and travels around the earth. As it is moving around the earth, different parts of the moon reflect the light of the sun, which is why the moon appears to change shape. Keep a moon journal to track what the moon looks like each night!
☀️ Watch a neighborhood sunset in this video clip from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
🌓 Help Buster and DW find their way through some nocturnal mazes in this fun game!
About
Liz from the WQED Education Team, is back to read you a wonderful story – entitled The Sun and the Moon, written by our good friend, Rocco- a winning story from the 2017 WQED Writer’s Contest. You can listen to Rocco read the story here.
Credits: WQED
Standards
1.3.PK.C – Answer questions about characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CC.1.3.K.A – Retell familiar stories including key details.
CC.1.3.1.A – Retell stories and demonstrate understanding of the central message.
CC.1.3.2.A – Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CC.1.3.3.A – Determine the central message, lesson, or moral in literary text.
CC.1.5.K.A–B, CC.1.5.1.A–B, CC.1.5.2.A–B, CC.1.5.3.A–B – Speaking and Listening standards for discussion and comprehension of a read-aloud text.
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