{"id":2215,"date":"2010-01-25T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2215"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:46:50","slug":"teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-who-said-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/25\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-who-said-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Physical Science with Children’s Literature: Who Said Red?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who Said Red?<\/a>, written by Mary Serfozo and illustrated by Keiko Narahashi, is a story where a young boy has lost his red kite.\u00a0 He and his sister frolic through the countryside landscape looking for his kite while exploring different objects and their colors.\u00a0 Along the way the sister tries to distract the brother by asking him if he really means another color instead of red.\u00a0 “A pickle green, A big frog green, A leaf, a tree, a green bean green.\u00a0 Did you say green?”\u00a0 The brother is insistent that he said red.\u00a0 After their journey through color identification, the boy finds his kite and shows his sister that he meant red.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections
\n<\/strong>This book will assist in teaching students physical science by investigating the physical properties of an object, specifically the colors of objects. (SOL K.4a)\u00a0 Who Said Red?<\/em> also helps students with understanding that sets of objects can be separated into groups based on a physical characteristics. (SOL 1.1c)\u00a0 Lastly, students can explore this book while developing their sensory descriptors by seeing how common objects are described. (SOL K.2b)<\/p>\n

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