Literacy

Phonological Awareness

• Use materials from Intervention Binder with students to provide additional repeated practice until mastery.
• Refer to the Franklin Phonological Awareness Curriculum sequence and outline of strategies. See Phonological Awareness and Young Children for additional activities.
• Share Family Literacy Tool Kits to be used with families with children at home.

Letter and Sound Identification

• Provide direct small group instruction using Lively Letters including visual, physical movement, sensory, and songs.
• Share materials with families to preview or review the Lively Letters songs and chants.
• Use materials from Intervention Binder with students to provide additional repeated practice until mastery.
• Incorporate repeated practices using flash cards, games, and activities across multiple settings.

Oral Language

Preteach and review vocabulary.

• Use visuals, realia, and physical movements in context to introduce vocabulary.
• Connect vocabulary to the real world.

Share materials with families to preview or review.

• Send read alouds home. In addition, send home copies of poems/songs, rhymes, and list of vocabulary words.

Provide opportunities for rich oral language.

• Read aloud to students at least 15 minutes a day, aiming to twice a day if possible.
• Insure access to rhymes, songs, and poems daily.
• Incorporate choral responses throughout the school day.

Check for comprehension using 5 Ws.

• Interact with children's literature using dialogic reading.
• Model and prompt for sentences beyond one word sentences.
• Provide sentence frames for oral response.

Incorporate repeated practices using cards across multiple settings.

Model use of language in dramatic play. Support extension of language in dramatic play, block area, at snack and recess.