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when teachers provide abundant reading
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material in the classroom
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they support children's literacy
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learning these costumes include a wide
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range of books and other texts
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accessible to children so literacy is a
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large part of our day from the time that
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the children walk in until the time that
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they leave the classroom so this is our
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book area and it's very important to us
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that we have different types of books
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that represent all of the children in
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our classroom so we have a very large
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middle-eastern population in our
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community so we have books that are both
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in English and also in Arabic and then
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we also have a lot of other books that
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reflect children's cultures their home
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lives and also reflect different types
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of families because we find that it's
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really important that children see they
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are not just children are just different
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based on their culture but also based on
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their family some other things that we
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like to put in our book area as well our
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child made books so they draw the
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pictures they create their own stories
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and then we write down the words for
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them for their stories and then some
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stories that are really interesting to
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the children they draw their own
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interpretations of those stories and
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then we also write down their words in
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retelling the story so we also have
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alphabet books and these are really
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important to use in the classroom
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because they have so many different
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words that begin with each letter of the
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alphabet so this is something that the
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children are really interested in and
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the teachers enjoy reading to the
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children and we point out abby alligator
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is ready to work a is for a b a is for
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Alligator so on each page as we're
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reading we're pointing out the words
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that begin with those letters and then
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in the back page it's a really
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interesting page where the children get
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to look at the picture and try to find
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the things from the story that begin
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with that letter so we have a lot of
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books that we actually have teacher made
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felt pieces to go with them
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so we have the story go away big green
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monster that the children are really
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interested in right now so we have
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teacher made materials for them to be
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able to open the book and put the pieces
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together with
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two big yellow eyes and the bluish
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greenish nose insult so forth and we
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have multiple sets so that multiple
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children can enjoy it at one time we
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also have uppercase and lowercase
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sequencing puzzles and with which the
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teachers work with their children to get
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the letters in order and a way that we
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do that with their children to help them
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with the sequencing is by singing this
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song we also have puzzles with letter
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and picture and then puppets right now
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the children are really interested in
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Goldilocks and the three bears so we
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have books and we have puppets for them
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to reenact the story with as well so I
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like to have a lot of books in the
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classroom that are also real life
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pictures I have a lot of books like this
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one up north in Michigan where it's
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going to show show real-life pictures of
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things that the children may experience
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here in Michigan with lakes and sand and
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those types of things and then some of
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the other books that actually reflect
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Michigan and where we're from also in
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the black area we have many books about
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building and transportation so these are
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things that the children can look
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through and also get ideas about things
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that they might want to build in the
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classroom with their own blacks there's
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also transportation books which we have
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vehicles so they can read about those
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and then the children were really into
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this story of the three Billy Goats
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Gruff so we did a small group activity
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where the children were building bridges
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and what we did was we printed out
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bridges of the Tower Bridge of London
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the Mackinac Bridge so that they could
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see real-life bridges and that would
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hopefully inspire them when they were
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building their own bridges so we also
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have clipboards in many different areas
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throughout the room we have them in the
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dramatic play center we have them in the
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science area we have them in the writing
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area and then we also have them in the
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black in building area and the children
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know that they can always access the
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clipboards you see they're well used for
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any type of writing they want to do any
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type of drawing any plans they want to
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do in black and building writing in the
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Writing Center writing and dramatic play
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whether they're taking orders or
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or writing down notes or in the science
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area so right now in the dramatic play
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center the children are very interested
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in doctors office so what we did was we
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brought in some books some that we
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created about our bodies so they can
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look at internal and external parts of
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the body and reference that when they're
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playing doctor and it has labeled so the
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children can her teacher can read to the
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children the different parts brain and
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hard and lungs and then there are also
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just some other books about the human
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body and about bones and things that
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they can reference while playing doctor
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so we also have book books for children
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to look at if they're taking orders they
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might want to write down the words of
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something and there's words in pictures
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for them to look at and they have
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notebooks clipboards we have sales order
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books receipt books pencils lots of
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different writing materials for them to
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use how they want in their play and then
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in the Science Center we have many
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different books about animals about bugs
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about fruits and vegetables and flowers
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and then we have we have books but
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they're all real life pictures for the
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children to look through and explore so
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here we have our lending library we have
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different books and also literacy
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materials for families to check out at
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the end of the day books are chosen
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based on children's interests and like I
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said literacy materials where we have
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letter puzzles alphabet bingo upper and
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lowercase letter matching different
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things for families to work with their
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children at home since we know that
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families are our children's first
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educators so we want to make sure that
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we're doing our part with families to
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help them teach their children at home
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we have a listening Center with many
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different types of books and we use
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these children can use these
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independently during work time and then
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we also have tablets and iPads that we
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use we have different apps that have
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different literacy activities on them to
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help children with letter recognition
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and sound and on the tablets children
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can also listen to ebooks so this is our
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writing area
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we encourage children to use it during
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work time but some of these activities
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we also use at other times throughout
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the day we have a lot of different
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writing materials such as dry erase
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markers crayons
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we have magnetic letters we also have a
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box filled with whiteboards and also for
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writing we have notebooks envelope
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sentence strips lined paper or plain
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paper all of those types of things for
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children to write down anything that
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they want and then of course we have our
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Spanish numbers Arabic numbers English
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alphabet and then the Arabic alphabet as
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well for the children to reference and
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we have real life pictures that are in
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our community the local grocery store
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the children are able to see them in
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print and connect it with the picture
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and these are things that are more
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meaningful to them because these are
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things that they see in their community
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when they choose to use it during work
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time some things they can use
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independently is some things they may
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need help with so that's just something
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that a teacher will kind of watch and
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see we want them to try things as much
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as they can and be independent but when
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they do need assistance we are there to
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to help them with things or answer any
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questions they might have so in the
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classroom each child has their own
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journal that we use during planning and
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recall time so this child drew a picture
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about what they did a tree call and then
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the teacher wrote down our area and the
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child said I painted so the teacher
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writes down the words that the child
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says and then the child also said house
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area I played with the music so the
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teacher writes down all of their
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interpretation of what they did they can
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also be used during other times of the
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day sometimes we use them after a story
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so the children will draw their
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interpretation of the story or they may
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draw a continuation of the story so when
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we read the story little blue and little
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yellow the child drew a picture and the
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child said they are hugging and turning
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green so that's what we wrote down
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they're hugging and turning green and
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then they are playing dress-up writing
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down the children's words are very
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important because it helps them connect
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what they're saying to the written word
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and that is one of the first steps to
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literacy as we leave the classroom we
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also do literacy activities through
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transition so if the child chose tea for
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tiptoe what we're going to do is we're
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going to sing
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song about tiptoeing and we're going to
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walk to the next area whether we're
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going to the gym whether we're going
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outside and we're going to tiptoe learn
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more at literacy essentials org
