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Writing
Center
When children use this center they will practice using language to
tell and write stories, poems, and other writing selections,
either on their own or with a teacher’s assistance.
They experience first hand the functional uses of print as
they try their hand at printing something with meaning. They practice reading as they reread their own stories and
the stories their friends write. Alphabet and phonemic awareness
is supported as children play with letters and use invented
spellings.
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Literacy
Props:
Clipboards,
variety of writing tools, variety of paper-blank, lined
theme based blank books, writing folders, type writers, alphabet
and number stamps, stamp pads, picture stamps, story cubes
A
typewriter and computer would be a great addition tot his center
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Functional
use of print
Oral
language- vocabulary
Literacy
skills- role-play/story telling, understanding plot, character,
and setting Emergent writing- invented spelling
Alphabet
awareness- writing name, and other letters
Phonemic
awareness- sounding out words to write using invented spelling
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Environmental
Print:
How
to Print the Letters of the Alphabet Poster
Parts
of a Story Poster
Writing
Process Poster
Samples
of children’s work
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Emergent
Reading
Functional
use of print
Alphabet
recognition
Phonemic
awareness
*Samples
can be collected and included in children portfolios
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Book
Examples:
Children’s
Story Books:
Classic
Storybooks such as Little Red Riding Hood, Chicken Little, and The
Three Pigs
*The
People Could Fly: American Black Folktales retold by Virginia
Hamilton
*Mother
and Daughter Tales retold by Josephine Evetts-Secker
Poetry
Books:
Where
the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The
Random House Book of Poetry For Children: A Treasury of 572 Poems
for Today’s Child Selected by Jack Prelutsky
Picture
Dictionaries:
American
Heritage First Picture Dictionary published by American
Heritage
*DK’s
First Spanish Picture Dictionary
published by DK Books
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Oral
language- dictated stories
Emergent
literacy –picture dictionaries
Concepts
of print- writing left to right
Concepts
of books- beginning, middle, end
Alphabet
knowledge- writing letters
Phonemic
awareness- poetry writing
Comprehension
skills- understanding plot, character, and setting, problem
solving, and critical thinking
*Inclusion
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