What is Pre-K Literacy?
Pre-K Literacy Curriculum units are based upon the close read model. Each week the children focus on one text, and each day look closely at that text. Pre-K Literacy is a 42-week literacy curriculum that includes lessons for oral language, phonological awareness, print awareness, whole-group reading, whole-body and the arts. Pre-K Literacy includes a weekly craft, skill check, follow-up practice sheets each day and SO much more!
Units Covered in Pre-K Literacy
Unit 1: Explore My Life
Unit 2: Explore Fall
Unit 3: Explore Winter
Unit 4: Explore Fiction
Unit 5: Explore Animals
Unit 6: Explore Spring
Unit 7: Explore Tales
Skills Covered in Pre-K Literacy Units
Pre-K Literacy is WAY more than just a read-aloud program. Pre-K Literacy covers SEVEN major areas of study each day!
Oral Language
Phonological Awareness
Print Awareness
Read Aloud Independent Practice
Whole-Body
The Arts
Oral Language
Each week a category of vocabulary words are chosen to study. These “life-based” words are in addition to the vocabulary words found in the context of the book. These words are perfect for our youngest learners and ELL Kiddos! Included are vocabulary picture cards, discrimination cards (realistic and fiction clip art), expansion of verbal vocabulary and following one and two-step directions using words.
Phonological Awareness
The students will work on one area of phonological awareness each unit! This skill will be applied through the weekly poems!
Skills covered:
Repeating and Clapping Sentences, Syllables, Rhyming, Alliteration, Phoneme Identification, and Blending.
Print Awareness
Each week the students will work on the following print awareness skills:
Book Handling
Title, Author, Ilustrator
Directionality
Concepts of Print (illustration, sentence, word, letter)
Environmental Print
Reader’s Workshop
This is your “meaty” part of the lesson where the teacher and the students interact with the text.
Each week:
Build interest on the topic, predict, essential questions, read cold.
Build knowledge of unknown vocabulary.
Text dependent questions (simple recall and story elements).
Retell or Story Elements for the week.
Week wrap-up assessment, Craft, Recap
Whole Body
Literacy learning is paired with the whole-body.
Skills covered each week:
Gross Motor
Fine Motor
Balance
Transitions
Peer to Peer Interaction
The Arts
Pre-K Literacy also covers the Arts.
Skills covered each week:
Dance and Movement
Song
Visual Art
Drama