Literacy

Story Sequencing Cards  **Common Core Standard: ** RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell a familiar story   RL.1.2 Retell storiesRL.K.7 Describe relationship between illustrations and the story    **Objective:** Students will use manipulatives to retell a story using the beginning, middle, and end. **Resources:** Surprise Bag **Common Core Standard: ** K.SL.3 Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. **Objective:** Students will ask questions using descriptive language. ** Resources: [|Pre-Reading Strategies] ** ** [|Surprise Bag Blog Post] ** Days of the Week Word Work **Common Core Standard: ** K.RFS.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills decoding words. **Objective:** Students will decode the days of the week. ** Resources: [|Days and Months Pinboard] ** Months of the Year Word Work **Common Core Standard: ** K.RFS.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills decoding words. **Objective:** Students will decode the months of the year  **Resources: [|Days and Months Pinboard]** Baa, Baa Black Sheep - Combining Sensory Experiences and Vocabulary Instruction **Common Core Standard: ** K.RL.4 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in text. **Objective:** Students will use descriptive language to describe objects from Baa, Baa Black Sheep. ** Resources: ** [|Nursery Rhyme Pinboard]: Baa, Baa Black Sheep sentence sequencing, video, and art projects. Using Laura Numeroff Books to Teach Cycles **Common Core Standards: ** **Objective:** Students will identify cause and effect from scenarios in Marjorie Wise Brown's, __The Runaway Bunny__,and Laura Numeroff's, __If You Give a Mouse a Cookie__. **Resources:**       [|Activities with Laura Numeroff Books] [|Class book template]: Students fill in the blanks with appropriate terms (naming noun, he/she, naming noun). Monster Manipulatives **Common Core Standard: ** K.RFS.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.   **Objective:** Students will use vocabulary words to create a story of their own with manipulatives. **Resources:**
 * K.RL.9 With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and adventures and experiences of characters in a familiar story.
 * <span style="color: #590d59; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">K.RL. 10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
 * [|Monster Teaching Pinboard]
 * //Go Away, Big Green Monster// by, Ed Emberly
 * [|Monster Educational LiveBinder]

Spelling Song: **<span style="color: #590d59; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Common Core Standard: ** <span style="color: #590d59; font-family: Georgia,serif;">K.RFS.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. <span style="color: #590d59; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;"> ** Objective: ** Children will learn to spell words using this song. **Resources:**
 * [|Spelling Pinterest Board]
 * [|Spelling Resources for Teachers and Students]

Nursery Rhymes (Jack Be Nimble): **<span style="color: #590d59; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Common Core Standard: ** <span style="color: #590d59; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">K.RL.2 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. **Objectives:** **Resources:**
 * **Children will be introduced to culture and rhyme through music and nursery rhymes.**
 * **Student brains will be 'fed' oxygen through active play**
 * **Livebinder collection of nursery rhyme sites and resources:** [|Livebinder Nursery Rhyme Resources]
 * **Nursery rhyme Pinterest board:** [|Nursery Rhyme Board]

Nursery Rhymes (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star): **Common Core Standard:** K.RL.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sound phonemes. **Objectives:** **Resources:**
 * **Learners will participate in music and rhyme activities.**
 * **Toddlers will practice age-appropriate listening and participation skills (making eye contact, attempting to mimic sign language and actions)**
 * Additional resources for teaching nursery rhymes: [|Twinkle, Twinkle]
 * **Livebinder collection of nursery rhyme sites and resources:** [|Livebinder Nursery Rhyme Resources]
 * **Nursery rhyme Pinterest board:** [|Nursery Rhyme Board]

Nursery Rhymes (Humpty Dumpty):   **Common Core Standard:** K.RL. 3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. **Objectives** **Resources:** __ [|Humpty Dumpty Resources] __ Nurturing Beginning Book Lovers: ** Common Core Standard: ** SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud by asking and answer questions. **Objective:** Providing experiences for students to interact with literature. **Resources:**
 * Exposing students to culture (nursery rhymes).
 * Learning the positional words: on/off.
 * [|Ideas to Invite Children to Fall in Love with Books]

Making Puppets: Common Core Standard: RL.K.2 Retell familiar stories **Objective:** **Resources:** Making Pointers: ** Common Core Standard: ** RL.K.2 RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. **Objectives**: **Resources: **
 * Educators will learn simple, inexpensive methods to create puppets to reinforce creative language play.
 * [|Puppet Pinterest Board]
 * [|Making Puppets - Blog]
 * Students will learn that words are read from left to right by watching the pointer.
 * Students will learn that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the written and spoken word.
 * __[|Ideas for Pointers]__
 * [|Making Pointers Blog]

S-A-N-T-A: Common Core Standard: RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. **Objectives:** **Resources:**
 * Students will practice letter recognition and letter sounds.
 * Students will use descriptive words.
 * [|Christmas tree template] (pointed edges on tree) [[image:Screen shot 2011-11-22 at 11.08.19 PM.png align="right"]]
 * [|Santa Pinterest Board]
 * [|See the activity on Marlise's Blog]

**Infinitec Resources:** (each of these sites can be found by following: resources, reading, reading links, educational enrichment activities, early literacy supports)
 * Literacy Center - Early Childhood Reading []
 * Online games and printables targeting beginning literacy skills. Gain practice forming letters and spelling color words.
 * Between the Lions - []
 * A site full of printable, online games, and read aloud books for emergent readers. Fantastic resources for parents and teachers.
 * Get Ready to Read - []
 * The Get Ready to Read! program is a national initiative with the goal to enhance early literacy skills of preschoolers. The site offers screening tools/checklists, activities to download, and online games.
 * Clifford's Interactive Storybooks - Letter and Sound Matching Games []
 * Phonics games and stories for early readers starring Clifford the Big Red Dog.
 * Starfall - Visit the "Let's Get Ready to Read" section [|http://www.starfall.com]
 * Online and downloadable activities for students learning letters through those that can read emergent connected text.