CHALLENGING WORDS
brush
hangs
paint
picture
pleased
smaller
something
tiny
SUMMARY
A bug, a bear, and a boy paint a picture together. Each
one paints a different part. When they are finished
they like what they have done.
--- Conversation Questions--(1) Name the characters in the story.
(Answer)
A bug, a bear, and a boy.
(Follow Up)
Which one do you like the best?
(2)
If you were the bug what would you use to paint
with?
(Answer)
Any logical answer.
(Follow Up)
What kind of pictures do you like to draw?
(3)
Imagine you’re the bear. What would you paint a
picture of?
(Answer)
Any logical answer.
(Follow Up)
What other ways can you create a picture?
(4)
Compare the picture in the book to a picture you’ve
painted.
(Answer)
Any logical answer.
(Follow Up)
What animals have you painted?
(5) Explain what pleased means.
(Answer)
Happy, you like something very well.
(Follow Up)
Share something you’ve been pleased about.
(6) Tell me whose brush was biggest.
(Answer)
The bears.
(Follow Up)
Why did he need a big brush?
(7) Name the three colors they used.
(Answer)
Yellow, blue, and green.
(Follow Up)
Which color did the ant use?
(8) Recall how long they painted.
(Answer)
A long time.
(Follow Up)
How long do you think it took?
(9)
Share who hung the picture on the wall.
(Answer)
The Bear.
(Follow Up)
Where do you hang the pictures you paint?
(10) Tell me what the picture was of.
(Answer)
A duck in a tree.
(Follow Up)
Where were they all sitting?
Activities
1.
Draw a picture of you own. Write a sentence telling about it.
2.
Draw and label a color wheel.
3.
Draw and label the bug, the bear, and the boy with the
paintbrushes. Below each label them and write the color each
used.
4.
Draw the same picture that was in the story. Write the title and
author.
Introduction
1. Place a paintbrush and paints on the desk. Ask the child what
kind of picture they’d like to paint. Say, “Let’s read our story and
see what kind of picture they paint.
2. Paint or draw a simple picture and hang it up. Say, “I painted for
a long time on this picture. Do you like it? Let’s read our story
and see if they like what they painted.”
3. Have a toy boy, bear, and a bug on the desk. Ask child what
these three can do together. Let’s read our story and find out.
Book Title: A Bug, A Bear and A Boy Paint a Picture
Author: David McPhail
Illustrator: David McPhail
ISBN: 0-590-66208-2
# of Text Pages: 8
AR: N/A LEX: N/A
Building Oral Vocabulary
1
primary colors
4
tiny
8
pleased
Prediction Questions
2
What will the bear paint?
3
What will the ant do?
7
What do you think the picture of?
This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the
Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.