Learning Experiences
Here on the Learning Experiences page you can browse lessons, activities, open explorations, learning games, and more. Many of the learning experiences are appropriate for the inclusive classroom, too. Use any or all of the drop-down boxes to describe the kind of learning experiences that you need. Go to the Ohio's Early Learning Content Standards page to browse the standards and lessons that address them. Remember, you can also find what you need using the search box at the top right corner of the page.
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The Literacy Center features web-based interactive literacy activities for preschool-aged children. Designed to support early reading skills, the activities provide opportunities for children to learn colors and color words, letters, numbers, phonemes, shapes, writing, and high frequency words.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Numerals, Geometry, Flat Shapes. Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge
Resource Type: Games, Parent Resource
Ages: 4-5
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This instructional unit provides many opportunities for children to read, write, recite, and listen to poems. Children identify the figurative language, rhyme, and repetition used in poems and begin to understand the elements of verse.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Children's Literature, Poetry, Communication, Songs and Poems
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, the children listen and respond to one or more of the picture books in the Corduroy series written by Don Freeman. Then the teacher sets up a rotation schedule for Corduroy or another stuffed story character to journey home with one child each night and enjoy a night of adventure.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Children's Literature, Literary Text/Fiction, Responding to Stories, Writing Development, Sharing Stories, Writing with Children, Stages of Writing Process, Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children read rebus versions of nursery rhymes online and identify the main character in each rhyme. Then, during a shared reading of the big book The Enormous Watermelon, they locate the nursery rhyme characters within the story.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Children's Literature, Songs and Rhymes, Reading with Children, Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words, Communication, Songs and Poems
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This lesson uses environmental print from the children's surrounding community. Through artifacts, photographs, visual displays and class books, students are provided opportunities to practice their reading skills and view themselves as competent readers and users of print.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Concepts of Print, Environmental Print, Vocabulary Development, Environmental Print. Social Studies — Geography, Neighborhoods
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This ongoing class activity encourages families to become more involved with their children's literacy development by participating in reading and literacy activities together. After adopting a stuffed animal as a class mascot, teachers construct a home literacy bag which include the mascot, books, and other literacy related supplies.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Responding to Stories, Reading with Children, Writing Development, Sharing Stories, Writing with Children, Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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In this lesson, teachers use a variety of resources to model an information-gathering process for children. Children listen to stories, read written texts, and examine photos and diagrams to answer key questions related to a topic of study.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Research, Gathering Information
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children demonstrate their knowledge of letters and sounds while talking about their names. (Letter-sound knowledge often begins with children making personal connections to their own names.) Working with name cards written by the children themselves or by an adult, the children make observations about their names and the names of their classmates.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Environmental Print, Writing Development, Printing Letters
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children interpret story elements and gain meaning with the help of the teacher's open-ended questions before, during, and after the story Julius, the Baby of the World is read aloud. This "text talk" technique is explained in detail for the teacher.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Comprehension, Responding to Stories, Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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Inspired by the book It Starts with an A, this lesson invites young children to combine their experiences with familiar objects and descriptive writing. The experience could be useful for children preparing for kindergarten who are emerging readers/writers even though the Read, Write, Think lesson developers have listed the appropriate grades as K-2.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Writing Development, Writing with Children, Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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You Can Find Great Science Books on ORC
In addition to the books in the REC Bookshelf, the ORC Science Bookshelf has some great picture books you can use to explore science concepts.
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