- The Three Little Javelinas (book)
- writing and drawing materials
- end
- first
- javelina
- next
- pig
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Writing/W.PK.MA.3 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to tell a real or imagined story.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16 Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Javelina Tale
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Display the cover of The Three Little Javelinas. Ask children to describe the wild pigs. Then encourage children to make up a story about one of the pigs.
Suggest that they close their eyes and imagine their stories in their minds. Ask them to draw the animal(s) and then write or dictate their stories. Guide the process with questions, such as, What happens first? What happens next? How does your story end?
Encourage children to share their work with classmates before taking the stories home. Or, if children prefer, bind the stories into a book, label it Our Javelinas Stories, and place it in the Library Center.