- chart paper
- marker
- boat
- ocean
- water
MA Standards:
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.
Approaches to Learning/Persistence and Attentiveness: Maintains interest in a project or activity until completed.
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: Our Water Story
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ELA Focus Skills: Creative Expression, Early Writing, Storytelling, Vocabulary
Gather children in a circle. Have them create a story together about a trip on the ocean in a boat. Have one child begin, then another child add to the story, and so on. Encourage children to describe the scene fully: what the weather is like, who they are with, how the water is moving beneath them and what it is doing to the boat, and how they are feeling. Record their story on chart paper as they talk. Help children respond in complete sentences.