- assorted root and leaf vegetables
- chart paper
- marker
- leaf
- root
- vegetable
MA Standards:
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: 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.
Draw and Write Together: Write about Leaf and Root Vegetables
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ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print (Directionality, Functions of Print, Print Carries Meaning), Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Invite children to work together to create detailed descriptions of the root and leaf vegetables you have been observing over the week. Hold up each vegetable one at a time and ask children to describe it. Ask them to use their senses to describe the vegetable. For example, ask, What does it smell like? Does it have leaves or roots? What color is it? What does it feel like? Record children’s responses on chart paper. When children are finished, read their descriptions back to them. Invite volunteers to come up to the chart to draw the vegetables under the descriptions.