- glue
- grocery store flyers
- old magazines
- scissors
- writing materials
- author
- front cover
- illustrator
- title
- 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: 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.
My Favorite Veggies
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Fine Motor Skills, Letter Recognition, Vocabulary, Writing
Tell children they can make their own books about the vegetables they have tried this week. The first page will be the front cover of the book. Write a title, such as I Like Vegetables, on each cover and include a line for the author to write his or her name. Read aloud the title, pointing out the spaces between words, and ask children to name any letters they recognize. Have them write their names on the line and decorate the cover.
Guide children to conclude that they can use a combination of drawings of vegetables and pictures cut from magazines or flyers to show their favorite vegetables. On the inside pages, have children write or dictate words and sentences to describe or talk about each vegetable. Talk with children about their completed books and, if children agree, display them in the Library Center for the group to share.
Adaptation: Encourage older children to copy the names of vegetables from the flyers or, if capable, to write instead of dictating to you so the book is their own handwriting.