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  1. School Readiness Activity Box: Language and Literacy
    Go to Record #6720  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readyatfive.org/images/pdfs/language_li...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
    Ages: 0-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts
    Commentary: This extensive set of lessons and activities can be used by a teacher or parent to support children in the development of language and literacy. The activities aim to strengthen language and literacy concepts that include: speaking clearly; asking and answering questions; following directions; showing interest and listening to books, stories, poems, and the people who read them; learning about letters, sounds, and words; and drawing pictures and trying to write letters...


  2. Hiccupotamus Extension Activities
    Go to Record #10476  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://rec.ohiorc.org/bookmark/view_a_folder.aspx?...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts
    Commentary: ..


  3. Listen, Look and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process
    Go to Record #1362  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view....
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Research, Gathering Information
    Commentary: 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...


  4. Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
    Go to Record #2768  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view....
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Comprehension
    Commentary: This sorting activity addresses critical-thinking skills, observation and categorization processes, and reading comprehension and writing skills. While this lesson emphasizes an open inquiry approach to sorting, teachers may adapt the activity to help children distinguish between genres, identify and discuss the types of books they like to read, or familiarize children with the classroom library selections...


  5. Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
    Go to Record #2829  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view....
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Research, Investigations, Gathering Information
    Commentary: Building on young children's intense interest and curiosity about animals, this lesson focuses on inquiry-based research. Through the use of nonfiction, children research and learn about animals, sorting and documenting their findings using graphic organizers...


  6. Note Writing in the Primary Classroom
    Go to Record #3393  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view....
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Writing Development, Writing Messages, Writing with Children
    Commentary: This lesson encourages children to write short notes to themselves, friends, teachers, and family members after being inspired by teachers who model purposeful writing in the classroom. Children write short notes, to remind, plan, request or compliment, providing many natural opportunities for meaningful writing and practice in encoding/decoding written text...


  7. Every Picture Tells a Story: Reading Illustrations
    Go to Record #1302  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teaching_materi...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Comprehension, Responding to Stories, Reading to Children
    Commentary: In this lesson, children explore how illustrations reveal the elements of plot and contribute to the telling of a story. The series of activities help children understand narrative story structure and apply that knowledge in new learning contexts...


  8. Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
    Go to Record #1368  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view....
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Environmental Print, Writing Development, Printing Letters
    Commentary: 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...


  9. Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World
    Go to Record #1393  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view....
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Comprehension, Responding to Stories, Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words
    Commentary: 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...


  10. Learning Letters: Alphabet Soup Game
    Go to Record #1518  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.heinemann.com/Shared/onlineresources/E0...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge, Hearing Sounds, Phonics, Concepts of Print
    Commentary: In this lesson, children pay close attention to letter features and letter names as they play an alphabet game. Using their own names, students practice identifying individual letters and connecting the sounds of those letters to familiar words...


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