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Literacy List

In Mike’s K1 classroom there is lots of literacy inclusion. The day is structured around reading and writing. Some of his materials include:

1. Word wall complete with the alphabet and names of the students in the classroom
2. Name list in alphabetical order
3. Agenda on the board of the schedule for the day that we read together every morning
4. Morning Meeting—includes some singing, reading, and comprehension.
5. Handwriting practice everyday with chalk boards
6. Habitat exploration with written descriptions of the plants and animals that the children find.
7. Read alouds throughout the day with a variety of different stories and messages.
8. Name puzzles where the children write they name, cut it apart, and try to put it back together and put their friend’s name puzzle together.
9. Big books-used for read alouds and the children are encouraged to explore them.
10. Classroom library organized by author’s last name and available to the students after they finish their work, during choice time, after lunch, and any other down time throughout the day.
11. Group Poster-Often we will write a message as a class where each student comes up and makes one letter on the poster until it is complete. We learn to spell and write together as a group.
12. Writing workshop where everyone gets a chance to draw a picture and use words to describe the story behind their drawing.
13. The room is decorated with all the colors on a sheet of colored paper with the word. For instance a green sheet of paper with the word “green” written on it.
14. Mailboxes in the room with the student’s picture and name so that the children can write letters to each other and learn how to spell each other’s names.
15. Site words added to the word wall and written on the wipe board
16. Wax rings used to circle specific letters of symbols in a piece of writing.
17. Poem of the week-we recite and read the same poem for a week. At the end of the week we make some kind of a mural or collage reflecting the poem.
1. Rickety, tickety, bumble bee, will you say your name for me?
2. This is the bee hive
3. Nuts fall out of the tree
4. Row, row, row your boat
18. North, South, East, and West are labeled in the classroom.
19. Interactive Writing
20. Shared writing
21. Sign in on the board
22. Spaces lesson
23. Singing and rhyming
24. Writes letters to children
25. Writes popular words on the board

Book Exploration

1. Good Boy Fergus by David Shannon
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
3. The Teacher from the Black Lagoon
4. How a dinosaur eats his dinner
5. How a dinosaur goes to school
6. The Night Pirates
7. Ish
8. Mixed up Chameleon
9. Temporary Princess
10. Bark George
11. Mud is Cake
12. Thunder Cake
13. There are monsters everywhere
14. There’s an Alligator under my bed
15. Roxaboxen
16. Cat Balloon
17. Stone Soup
18. Dinosaurompus
19. The Cow Went Oink
20. There’s a Nightmare in my Closet
21. If I could
22. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
23. The Kissing Hand
24. Pico the Gnome
25. My first Day of Kindergarten
26. Sitka Rose
27. Sourdough Man
28. If you Give a Moose a Muffin
29. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
30. The Little Mouse, the Read Ripe Strawberry, and the Bg Hungry Bear
31. Dream Big Little Pig
32. If I was Mayor
33. The Four Princesses
34. Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
35. Froggy goes to School
36. Jamberry
37. The Giving Tree
38. Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
39. Caps for Sale
40. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
41. A Color of His Own
42. Green Eggs and Ham
43. One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root and Jane Chapman
44. Not Now Bernard
45. Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don’t)
46. The Princess and the Pea
47. Giant Children
48. The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
49. Slowly, Slowly, Slowly said the sloth
50. Today I feel Silly
51. Diary of a Fly
52. Just an Ordinary Day
53. Alligator Boy
54. Patti’s Pet Gorilla
55. The Caboose Who Got Loose
56. The Frogs Wore Suspenders
57. Children of the Forest
58. Grandfather Twilight
59. The Mitten
60. The Salmon Princess

61. Amazing Water by Melvin Berger

62. Is It Floating by Fred and Jean Biddulph
63. The Drop in My Drink: the story of water on our planer by Meredith Hooper
64. The Magic School Bus Wet All Over!
65. Water Dance by Thomas Locker
66. Paddle-to-the-Sea by by Clancy Holling
67. The Snowflake by Noel Waterman
68. A Drop Around the World by Barbara Shaw McKinney
69. Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn M. Branley
70. A Drop of Water by Grodon Moretson
71. Stars in the Water by Lesley DuTemple
72. One Well: the story of water on Earth written by Rochelle Strauss
73. Did a Dinosaur Drink This Water? Written by Robert E.Wells
74. Where does the Garbage Go? By Paul Showers
75. Air is All Around You by John O’Brian
76. Science with Water Usborne science activities
77. Tracking Trash by Loree Griffin Burns
78. Saving Water by Acorn
79. This is the Rain by Lola M. Schaffer
80. I am Water by Kean Marcella
81. The Water Cycle by Bobbie Calman
82. A Drop Goes Plop by Sam Godwin
83. The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
84. Earth Book for Kids: Activities to Help Heal the Environment by Linda Schwartz
85. Flotsam by David Wiesner
86. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
87. There was an old lady who swallowed a trout by Teri Sloat
88. There’s a nightmare in my closer by Mercer Mayer
89. Ten Flashing Fireflies written by Philemon Sturges and Anna Vojtech
90. Moonbear’s Shadow by Frank Asch