Everyday Literacy: Listening & Speaking, Grade Prek Teacher Resource

The perfect supplement to your core early reading program!

Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade PreK helps you support receptive and expressive language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons.

The 20 weekly units in grade PreK cover Early Reading First's Four Dimensions, including:

Oral Language:

• Using new vocabulary
• Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge
• Identifying objects through receptive language
• Developing auditory memory
• Using descriptive language
• Reciting short poems, rhymes, and songs
• Describing the actions of characters in a story
• Responding orally to simple questions
• Listening for different purposes
• Following directions

Phonological Awareness:

• Identifying rhymes and rhyming sounds in familiar words
• Beginning to attend to the beginning sounds in familiar words
• Beginning to break words into syllables
• Clapping along with each syllable
• Identifying and counting phonemes

Comprehension:

• Making predictions
• Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences
• Noting details
• Recalling details
• Identifying sequence of events
• Distinguishing between real and make-believe
• Determining cause and effect

Motor Skills:

• Developing small muscle coordination
• Developing large muscle coordination

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.

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