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Lesson
plans emphasize a progression of skills through whole and
small group activities. In addition, there are 33 skill cards
in the Skill Cards Book located in the Teacher's Resource Box - to provide guidance and lessons
in developing these skills.
Fun
With Language - Rhyming,
phonemic awareness, cloze activities, songs, poetry,
choral reading, variations in dialogue
Exploring
Books -
Book
handling skills, role of authors and illustrators,
open-ended questions, real/make believe, retelling
stories, text-to-life connections, nonfiction
Words
Around Us - Environmental
print, oral language, phonemic awareness
What
Will Happen? - Predictions, directions,
sequencing, prior knowledge, text-to-text connections, graphic
organizers
Print Concepts -
Letter recognition, print conventions
Creating Stories - Oral
language skills, retellings, using new vocabulary, drawing,
writing and/or dictating stories, telling stories in logical
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