Bring movement, imagination and meaningful conversation into your Kindergarten read-aloud with this interactive lesson inspired by How Will I Get to School This Year? by Jerry Pallotta.
As the story introduces increasingly imaginative ways of travelling to school, children move like each ride, choose YES, MAYBE or NOT FOR ME, and explain their thinking to a partner. After reading, students design their own surprising way to get to school and describe how it moves and what makes it helpful.
This playful lesson supports oral communication, prediction, comprehension, opinion sharing, creative thinking and early data collection—all through an engaging, developmentally appropriate Kindergarten experience.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
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One complete interactive read-aloud lesson plan
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“Would You Ride It?” movement and voting activity
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YES, MAYBE and NOT FOR ME response signs
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“My Wild Ride to School” student design template
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Oral-language sentence frames
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Assessment look-fors
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Differentiation suggestions
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Extension and next-step ideas
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Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum 2026 connections
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U.S. Common Core Kindergarten connections
STUDENTS WILL
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Make predictions before and during reading
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Respond physically to ideas from the story
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Make and communicate a personal choice
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Give a reason for their thinking
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Listen and respond to classmates
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Collect and compare simple class data
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Invent and represent an original way to travel
PERFECT FOR
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The first week of Kindergarten
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Back-to-school read-alouds
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Whole-group literacy
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Oral-language development
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Community-building activities
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Transportation inquiries
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Creative design and STEAM connections
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Kindergarten and homeschool learning
Children may complete the activity by drawing, labelling, dictating or building their idea with blocks and loose parts.
Please note: The book is not included and is required to teach the lesson. This is an independently created educational resource and is not affiliated with the author or publisher.
