About A-Book-A-Week Instruction

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A-Book-A-Week instruction makes use of the 101 Best Books that have been purchased for the Head Start home-school library. Each month, four of the books from the library are highlighted. These books have been selected based on common themes found in preschools -- holidays, colors, and counting. We have also highlighted books that especially support phonological awareness.

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Our downloadable instruction for each book comes in the form of 4 activity cards, one for each of the categories we believe to be important in children's development of literacy:

Language Development, with attention to vocabulary and syntactic structures. (WIL's A-Rhyme-A-Week deepens this particular emphasis)

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Acts of Writing, including letter-sound relationships, print concepts, and genre knowledge

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Artist's Craft, with attention to the ways authors and illustrators have created their works

Lots of Links, including intertextual connections, connections to other content areas, and connections to children's lives

 

Go to WIL's A-Book-A-Week Instruction

Please note: If you do not have Adobe Acrobat or a Mac with Preview you will need to download it to open and use these PDF files.