1.PK.5 Demonstrate awareness that print carries message
3.PK.1 Retell a story with pictures props or a book
3.PK.6 Listen to and identify words and phrases that reveal tone.
4.PK.5b Respond to or ask a question about an event, text or picture.
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What is a great set of nursery rhymes to use during storytime?
Mother Goose?
100
What is an easy way to show print recognition using a book?
Running finger under the text while reading a story.
100
What is a creative way to retell a story?
Use sign language!
100
What is an exciting way to emphasize that print has meaning AND reveal tone while reading a book?
Emphasize onomatopoeia words while reading: Bam! Crash! Boom! Splash!
100
What is a great way to draw conclusions about the less than obvious events in a story, for example: a character is not telling the truth, someone may be planning a surprise party, a dark shadow may actually be a cute little bunny, etc.
Ask children to think about and guess what's going to happen BEFORE you turn the page and reveal the "answer".
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What is a fun book that can be used to identify rhyming words?
Pete the cat
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What is a fun way to teach print recognition anywhere not just while reading?
Read instructions with a child
200
What is a fun way to have children retell a story that was just read?
Use felt/flannel pieces to represent characters or objects in a book
200
What is a good way to create opportunities for discussing pictures, phrases and diaglogue in books that reveal tone?
Choose storytime titles like: "Don't worry bear", "Thank you, Bear", "Yeti turn out the light", "Grumpy bird".
200
What is a great way to use pictures to develop higher level thinking skills?
Choose non fiction books with pictures of real people doing every day activities and ask who, what, where, when, why questions.
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What is a fun way to say goodbye that teaches print recognition and guessing rhyming words?
See you later alligator
300
What is a fun way to actively demonstrate print recognition that doesn't directly relate to a book?
Sing list of dances song with printed words as each action is performed.
300
What is a creative wayto encourage children's creativity & thinking skills in retelling a story?
Use flannel pieces, pictures, etc. relating to a familiar story, asking children to make up their own beginning, middle, ending.
300
What is a great way to reveal tone?
Change the tone of your voice to express what is happening in text (fear, disappointment, happiness, doubt, excitement, etc.)
300
What is a great way to build vocabulary and follow a simple pictorial direction?
Read wordless books with children.
400
What is a fun way to teach rhyming and breaking up words into syllables?
Clapping out words
400
What is a great way to show that print has meaning in every day life?
Making lists with children.
400
What is a creative way to enhance memory, creativity to retell a story?
Use puppets to act out a story.
400
What is a simple way to help children understand punctuation as it relates to tone and meaning in a sentence?
Point out that by placing a little mark called a comma or an exclamation point in a sentence can completely change the meaning!
400
What is a great way to develop higher level thinking skills like comparing/contrasting 2 stories?
Read the classic fairy tale: "The three little pigs", then read a fractured version like "The three horrid little pigs". Discuss similarities.
500
What is a fun rhyming game to play with preschoolers?
Asking children how many words they can say that rhyme with the word bat.
500
What is a fun way to show that there is a printed symbol (word) for everything we can see, say, feel, think, etc.?
Using dry erase board, pen or magnetic letters to spell out storytime or curriculum themes, feelings, names, objects, etc.
500
What is a great way to enhance memory, creativity, thinking skills & vocabulary building to retell or reinterpret a familiar story?
Use dry erase board and ask children to draw pictures.
500
What is a good way to use pictures to help children understand tone?
Ask childen how characters in illustrations might be feeling based on their facial expressions.
500
What is a fun, interactive way to answer questions about the specific sequence of events in a story?
Read If you give a mouse a cookie. Ask children to re-tell the story with little or no help using flannel pieces.