- fiction and nonfiction books about ramps
- writing and drawing materials
- ramp
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.
Our Ramp Stories
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Concepts of Print, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary, Writing
Have children discuss their ramp building activities. Ask, Can you tell us a story about one of the observations you discovered while exploring the ramps?
- Have children make up a story about a ramp or tell a story that actually happened while they were exploring.
- Encourage children to use new vocabulary as they dictate or write about their observation.
- Then have them cut pictures from magazines to illustrate their story.
You may want to make a group book “Our Ramp Stories” to leave in the Library Center for children to have access to on their own.