This unit focuses on exposure to stories, legends, songs, and
other literature from diverse cultural and ethnic groups. Multicultural stories,
poems, and songs presented will center on traditional foods from various cultures.
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This unit focuses on the understanding of self as an individual
and as part of a class, through activities that encourage the expansion of vocabulary
and the identification of who and what is important in one’s life. The
writing of an “All About Me” book provides the opportunity to use
the new vocabulary and to record information about important figures, objects,
and events in one’s life.
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This unit focuses on the exposure to meaningful print with predictable text
patterns, repetitive language, and simple illustrations in familiar and more
modern traditional tales.
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The focus of this unit is the understanding that print has meaning and the
recognition of story elements. This unit promotes exposure to a variety of literature
with predictable text patterns, limited text, repetitive language, and simple
illustrations.
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This unit focuses on developing listening, speaking, and writing skills through
a study of animals in familiar children’s books.
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This unit focuses on exposure to different styles of writing used by various
authors. Additionally, this unit focuses on an author’s purpose and how
story elements are developed and used as well as how students may use those
techniques in writing their own stories.
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This unit focuses on the identification of rhyming word patterns in selected
literature, such as nursery rhymes, poems, and rhyming songs.
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This unit focuses on poetry as an enjoyable way to communicate thoughts and
feelings. Poetry brings together sounds and words in unique ways to create pictures
in the mind of the readers.
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