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3.  Students can learn early on about the printed word at home.  In lower elementary such as Kindergarten classrooms teachers use lots of environmental print and printed labels throughout the classroom to help students become familiar with everyday words.

4.  Alphabet books  Magnetic letters  Letter stamps  Letter tiles  Scrabble tiles from an old game  Letters labeled on legos  Sorting letters

5.  Figure 4-2 and 4-3 (discuss in your groups)  Emergent  Beginning  Fluent

6.  Good Morning Boys and Girls, Today is _______ September 6, 2013. It is the __day of school. Today we will go to _______. We love to build words in word work center. Today we will _____The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

7.  The teacher reads aloud a book to the class to model fluent reading and to share books that they may be interested in but are above their reading levels.

8.  LEA  Literacy lessons based on children’s language and experiences  Shared writing may be included here in activities such as creating books, making a craft along with reading a book and writing about the activity.

9.  Interactive writing  Manuscript handwriting  Writing centers

10.  Tompkins, Gail E. (2014). Literacy for the 21st century A balanced approach. Boston, MA: Pearson (6th edition)