- writing and drawing materials
- build
- house
- materials
- measure
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Writing/W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Experiments with writing tools and materials.
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.
The House I Would Build…
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Vocabulary
Have children use the pictures they drew in the Art Center to write sentences about the house they would build if they could. Have children dictate/write a sentence about how they would build their houses: what tools they would use, how they would measure it, what kinds of rooms it would have, who would live in it, etc. Write children’s responses in a sentence or caption under their drawings. Point to each word as you read what you have written to the child. Create a wall display with the drawings or bind the pictures together in a class book.
English Language Learners: If English language learners have trouble putting their ideas into words, let them use pictures or draw pictures to give you a visual cue of what they are trying to verbalize. Then give them the words to say it on their own.