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Reading Around the School: Grades K-1 (Real-Life Reading Activities)
Reading Around the School Grades K1 - Real-Life Reading Activities Author:Jo Ellen Moore Children who are beginning to read often believe that they can only read their special "reading" materials at school. This unit is designed to dispel that belief and focus reading instruction on reading real things, starting with classroom objects and areas. — In Reading Around the School activities are provided that facilitate the development of... more » oral language, phonemic awareness, print awareness, and syntactic awareness. Skills are integrated as students begin recognizing letters and words and forming letter/sound associations. The activities here require reading to, with, and by learners, with an emphasis on comprehension. As learners begins to read, they must also begin to write, so suggestions for real writing activities are included as well.
Teacher information pages and reproducible patterns and activity sheets help children begin to read things around the school: names, calendar, labels and signs, instructions, charts and lists, bulletin boards, items in the cafeteria.
Special Features: skills checklist, bibliography, parent letter, learning center ideas, word and picture cards for labels, signs, and direction words, plus two reproducible beginning readers (Ben's Lost Book, What's for Lunch?) with teaching ideas and reproducible word cards. Pleasing, instructive line art illustrations throughout. All 64 pages perforated for easy removal.« less