Literacy Resources

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.