- drawing materials
- paper (one sheet per child)
- sound
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: We Love Jazz!
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Reread a few pages of Jazz Baby that feature sound and action words (for example, bouncin’, clap, rum, tum, etc.). Have children write or dictate one of the words on the bottom of a sheet of paper. Have them draw a picture to illustrate the word. Gather children’s pages into a “We Love Jazz” book. Display the book in the Library Center for children to view.
Take It Further: Ask children to think of ways they could make clap, toot, and tat sounds. Ask children about objects they would use to make the sounds and the types of materials those objects would be made of (aluminum, plastic, etc.)